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Incidere is a one-person atmospheric/depressive black metal and dark ambient project from Mexico City, formed in 2018 by multi-instrumentalist Lura Dyzert. The project is signed to BMC Productions and released the full-length Return the Light in 2021.
Incubo is a depressive black metal/ambient project from Latina, Italy, active since 2016 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Infernal Bleeding is a atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2023 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Initium Mortuus is a depressive black metal project from Szekszárd, Hungary, active since 2015 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Initium Noctis is an atmospheric/depressive black metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2026, crafting desolate, emotionally harrowing black metal. The band's name — Latin for "beginning of night" — reflects their immersion in the genre's most introspective and melancholic traditions.
Inner Suffering is a depressive black metal project from Kharkiv, Ukraine, active since 2014 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Depressive black metal band from Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée, active since 2018. Their bleak name channels depressive black metal from the rural western French countryside.
Insônia sem Fim (Portuguese for "endless insomnia") is a Brazilian depressive black metal project formed in 2024, the work of Invitus Mortuus (Lucas Damaso) and Clenched Fist (Guilherme Costa). The project released the demo-album "Sanatorium of Solitude" in late 2024, followed by "Lone Warrior on the Brink of Death" in 2025, establishing the duo as a prolific presence in the underground DSBM scene.
Interior Mors is a atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Italy, active since 2018 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
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