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Thrash metal band from Ballymoney in Northern Ireland, active since 2016. Their sound channels thrash aggression from the rural Antrim countryside.
Illwill is a thrash metal band from Sweden, active since 2018 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
San Carlos veterans Imagika have been fusing power metal's soaring melodics with thrash metal's technical aggression since 2007, representing the best of what the Bay Area's scene has always done well.
Imflawed is a groove/thrash metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2019 and comprising Arthur Santos (guitar/vocals), Jefte Felipe (lead guitar), Alisson Nascimento (bass/vocals), and Paulo Henrique (drums). The band released the live album "Live at Hellcife" in April 2021, recorded at L.A. Studios in Recife and featuring a tribute to local legends Chico Science e Nação Zumbi woven into the set.
Imga is a thrash/death metal band from Samara, Russia, active since 2015 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Immense Decay is a thrash metal band from Elbląg, Poland, active since 2011 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Immhoshlakh is a death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2021 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Madison, Wisconsin's Imminent Attack evolved from their hardcore punk origins into a full-throttle crossover thrash beast, landing somewhere between D.R.I. and early Slayer with Midwest grit to spare.
Imminent Attack is a thrash/crossover metal band from Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2012. Their debut album "Deliver Us From Ourselves" (2012), produced at Casanegra studio, delivered fourteen tracks of high-speed thrash with D.R.I. and Suicidal Tendencies-influenced crossover edge, and featured a guest appearance by Pedro Poney of Violator on the track "St. Madness".
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