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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Ismael is a thrash/death metal band from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland, active since 2009 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Isolirion is a progressive/technical groove/thrash metal band from Pantigliate (Milan), Italy, active since 2020 and blending thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch. The project delivers high-energy, riff-driven metal.
Isolysis is a thrash/groove metal band from Nottingham, United Kingdom, active since 2005 and blending thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch. The project delivers high-energy, riff-driven metal.
Istrulity is a death/thrash metal band from Čačak, Serbia, active since 2011 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Italicus Carnifex is a thrash/groove metal/hardcore band from Monghidoro (Bologna), Italy, active since 2020 and blending thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch. The project delivers high-energy, riff-driven metal.
Item is a groove/thrash metal band from Malta, active since 2020 and blending thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch. The project delivers high-energy, riff-driven metal.
Ivorygod is a thrash/groove metal band from Gomel, Belarus, active since 2012, welding the speed and aggression of thrash to the chugging rhythmic heaviness of groove metal. The band represents Gomel's thriving heavy music scene with a dual-pronged attack of velocity and weight.
Ixion is a thrash metal band from Wuustwezel, Belgium, active since 2007, delivering aggressive, speed-driven thrash in the classic European vein. The band channels the intensity and relentless riffing of the genre's founding era through a distinctly Flemish sensibility.
Izegrim is a thrash/death metal band from Zutphen, Netherlands, active since 2017 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
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