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Infernal Blasphemy is a melodic black/death metal band from Schweinfurt, Germany, formed in 2025, merging the harmonic richness of melodic metal with the extremity of black and death metal. The band represents the newest wave of Franconian extreme metal.
Black/death metal band from France formed in 2023. Their infernal name channels extreme metal from the French underground.
Infernal Bleeding is a atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2023 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Infernal Bloodlust is a brutal death metal band from Mexico City, formed in 2008. The band released the albums Aeons Of Murder and Sick Demented Company before rechristening themselves Becoming the Entity in 2019.
Infernal Bloodshed is a black/speed metal project from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2022 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Infernal Carnage is a death metal/grindcore band from Schwyz, Switzerland, formed in 2020, combining death metal's guttural brutality with grindcore's breakneck speed and brevity. The band channels extreme violence through short, explosive bursts of sonic destruction.
Infernal Cemetery is a blasphemous black/death metal band from Coronel Marcelino Mariduena in Ecuador's Guayas province, formed in 2024. Their debut release "Necrosemen of Impurity Genocide" delivers fast riffing over blasting double bass drums with lyrics centered on occultism, Satanism, and anti-Christianity, positioning the band as part of the rotten extreme metal underground of South America.
Infernal Cross is a blackened thrash metal act from Västra Götaland, Sweden, active since 2024 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Infernal Crown is a black/death metal band from Potsdam, Germany, formed in 2024, delivering dual-genre extremity from the historic Brandenburg capital. The band merges the atmospheric fury of black metal with death metal's crushing weight.
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