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Iumenta is a death metal band from Sandnes, Norway, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Ius ad Bellum is a blackened death metal band from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2024, taking its name from the Latin legal concept of "right to war." The band channels militaristic themes through crushing blackened death metal.
Ivan Miladinov is a Bulgarian multi-instrumentalist from Nova Zagora, active since 2015, who began playing piano at age four and progressed through keyboards, death vocals, guitar, and drum programming by his teens. Signed to Club Inferno Entertainment in 2017, his melodic death/power metal draws from Children of Bodom, Sonata Arctica, and Dimmu Borgir, with early demos produced by Bob Katsionis.
Ivory is a deathcore and metalcore outfit from Fürstenfeld, Austria, formed in 2019, channeling crushing breakdowns and aggressive riffing. The band fuses the rhythmic brutality of deathcore with melodic metalcore hooks in a punishing modern extreme metal style.
Ixaxar is a crust/black/death metal act from Genoa, Italy, active since 2024 and merging the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. The project delivers fierce extremity at the crossroads of both genres.
Ixodes is a metal band from Laktaši, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2014, initially rooted in nu-metal before evolving into a melodic death metal direction. Their stylistic shift traces a path from groove-laden heaviness toward more technical, Scandinavian-inspired melodic extremity.
Ixpapalotl is a death metal/grindcore band from Athens, Greece, active since 2013 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death metal band from Álava in the Basque Country, active since 2011. Their sound channels death metal from the inland Basque province.
Izegrim is a thrash/death metal band from Zutphen, Netherlands, active since 2017 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
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