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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Industrial black/death metal band from Helsinki, Finland active since 2014. Their Titan-referencing name channels industrial-tinged extreme metal from the Finnish capital.
Iapetos is a black metal band from the Sauerland region of Germany, active since 2009, drawing on the forested, mountainous landscape of this North Rhine-Westphalian highland for their atmospheric approach. The band channels the cold, wooded isolation of the Sauerland into tremolo-driven black metal compositions.
Atmospheric black metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland formed in 2024. Their Irish Gaelic name channels atmospheric black metal from the Northern Irish capital.
Iarna, whose name draws from the Romanian word for winter, emerged from Spokane in 2025 with a frost-bitten black metal sound that suits the high plateau cold of Eastern Washington.
Iato is a hardcore/thrash/death metal band from Quartu Sant'Elena (Cagliari), Italy, active since 2012 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
IAYF is a melodic death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2012, delivering Gothenburg-influenced melodeath from Catalonia's capital. The band pairs soaring guitar harmonies with crushing death metal intensity from one of Europe's most vibrant music cities.
Iberian Wolves is a pagan metal band from Cordoba, Spain, active since 2015, channeling the pre-Roman heritage and wild landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula into folk-tinged heavy metal. The band draws on the ancient history of Andalusia for their thematic inspiration.
Ibex is a black/thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2020, fusing the raw aggression of black metal with the velocity and riff-driven attack of thrash. The band delivers a fast, filthy hybrid of both genres from Germany's fourth-largest city.
Ibex Angel Order is a black metal project from Tilburg, Netherlands, active since 2014 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Netherlands black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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