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I.D.C. is a grindcore/death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2021 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Iadul is a death metal/grindcore band from Wolfsburg, Germany, formed in 2022, blending guttural death metal with grindcore's frantic velocity. The band channels industrial-city aggression into short, devastating bursts of extremity.
Industrial grindcore/black metal and noise project from the Centre-Val de Loire region, formed in 2021. Their Gnostic deity name channels chaotic, genre-crossing extremity from central France.
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.
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