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Icare is a post-black metal band from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, originally founded in 2016 as a black/grind outfit before evolving toward atmospheric post-black metal. Their 2022 album Charogne is a single forty-three-minute composition inspired by Charles Baudelaire's poem "Une Charogne," exploring mortality through contrasting tumultuous and contemplative passages.
Ice Wurm is a death metal/grindcore band from Lisbon, Portugal, active since 2025 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
A ferocious black/death/grind amalgam — the Bandcamp URL hints at Texas origins — colliding all three genres into something confrontational and barely contained, refusing to settle into any single extreme.
Pennsylvania's slam/brutal death/goregrind entity named after the world's largest mantis, matching that predator's lethality with a sound designed to maximize bodily damage per minute since 2023.
Imbecile is a grindcore/death metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2021, delivering explosive bursts of extreme aggression from the shores of the Baltic Sea. The band channels grindcore's brevity and ferocity with a death metal foundation.
Immured is a death metal/crust-grindcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2005, delivering two decades of ferocious extremity that merges death metal's guttural brutality with crust punk and grindcore's raw velocity. The band channels Franconia's underground energy into relentless bursts of sonic violence.
Oakland's Impaled have spent nearly two decades sharpening a death metal and grindcore sound with surgical humor and genuine brutality — one of the Bay Area's most reliably visceral underground acts.
Impending Mindfuck is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2022, delivering maximum sonic extremity through short, devastating compositions. The band channels the intersection of brutality and speed from the heart of northern Hesse.
Implore is a blackened death metal/grindcore/crust band operating between Hamburg, southern Germany, and Linz, Austria, active since 2014, with a discography spanning from Depopulation through The Burden of Existence and A Decade In The Shadow. The band merges the filth of crust punk with blackened death-grind intensity, including a split release with American powerviolence act ACxDC.
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