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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Infraction is a grindcore act from Gävle, Sweden, active since 2001 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Infuzoria Tufelka is a goregrind/brutal death metal band from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, active since 2013 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
Inglourious Basterds is a death metal/grindcore band from Aprilia (Latina)/Rome, Italy, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death metal/grindcore band from Brumath in Alsace, active since 1996 — nearly three decades of extreme metal from the Franco-German border region.
Inhume is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Panningen/Maasbree, Netherlands, active since 2000 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
Death metal/grindcore band from Taverny in the Val-d'Oise suburbs of Paris, active since 2017. Their Latin name — meaning 'injury' — channels extreme metal from the Île-de-France.
Innerot is a death metal/grindcore band from Västerås, Sweden, active since 2023 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Insane Madness is a grindcore band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, operating in the deathgrind and crustcore spectrum. The band released the EP Pandemia in July 2024, establishing themselves as a new entry in northeastern Brazil's growing extreme metal underground.
Death metal/grindcore band from Valenciennes in northern France, active since 2017. Their sound fuses death metal with grindcore from the Nord department.
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