World Metal Index

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Insect Warfare

Houston, TX, US · 2004–2009 · disbanded
Legendary Houston grindcore. Short-lived but massively influential.
Grindcore

Inside Conflict

Poitiers, FR · 2018–present · active
Death metal/grindcore/hardcore band from Poitiers in western France, active since 2018. Their three-genre fusion delivers aggressive extremity from the historic Vienne capital.
Death MetalGrindcore

Insistent

Prague, CZ · 2018–present · active
Insistent is a grindcore band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2018, delivering short, violent blasts of sonic extremity in the tradition of the genre's most relentless practitioners. The band channels grindcore's brevity-is-brutality ethos through razor-sharp bursts of aggression.
Grindcore

Instinto Ruim

Recife, BR · 2019–present · active
Instinto Ruim is a grindcore band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, whose lineup includes Diego (vocals), Jonathas (drums), and Raphaell (guitar). The band released a six-track demo in 2019, drawing on metal, hardcore, crust, and grindcore influences in the tradition of the Brazilian extreme underground.
Grindcore

Insurmountable Obstacle

Kulmain, DE · 1992–present · active
Insurmountable Obstacle is a death metal/grindcore/hardcore/punk band from Kulmain, Germany, active since 1992, making them one of the oldest extreme crossover acts in the Bavarian countryside. Over three decades, the band has fused multiple extreme genres from their base in rural Upper Franconia.
Death MetalGrindcore

Intense Degree

GB · 1986–present · active
Intense Degree were a thrashcore and grindcore band from Mansfield, England, who emerged in the mid-1980s sharing stages with contemporaries Napalm Death, Heresy, and Bolt Thrower. The band attracted the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, recording a session for his program first broadcast in March 1988, and were notable for their blistering hardcore pace and an unusually prominent female bassist within the scene.
GrindcoreThrashcore

Interface

Belfast, GB · 2017–present · active
Interface are a grindcore and death metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2017. They bring ferocious grinding extremity to the Northern Irish underground.
Death MetalGrindcore

Interiora

Catanzaro, IT · 2013–present · active
Interiora is a death metal/grindcore band from Catanzaro, Italy, active since 2013 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death MetalGrindcore

Internal Damage

Saint Petersburg, RU · 2009–present · active
Internal Damage is a grindcore act from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2009 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Grindcore

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