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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Infernalien are a death/black/industrial metal band from London, featuring Nysrok of Alien Vampires and ex-Aborym. Their 2020 release Purge delivers confrontational industrial metal with black metal aggression and dark, occult-influenced aesthetics.
Infernaliska Stillheten is a atmospheric black metal act from Kalmar, Sweden, active since 2012 and crafting immersive, expansive compositions that push beyond conventional black metal boundaries. The project blends atmospheric textures with the intensity of extreme metal.
Infernalium Bellum is a black metal band from León, Guanajuato, Mexico, active since 2014 and signed to Black Saw Records. The band released their debut full-length The Pilgrimage to the Underworld in 2025.
Death metal band from Paris, France formed in 2024. Their Latinized name channels death metal from the French capital.
Black metal band from Turku, Finland active since 2016. Their sound channels black metal from Finland's southwestern cultural center.
Black/death metal/grindcore band from Hamina on Finland's southeastern coast, formed in 2022. Their three-genre fusion delivers relentless extremity from the Gulf of Finland.
Infernation is a black/death metal act from Kyiv, Ukraine, active since 2022 and merging the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. The project delivers fierce extremity at the crossroads of both genres.
Infernizer is a thrash/death metal project from Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil, conceived during the pandemic by Alex Morais, also known from the band Storms. The project released its debut EP Pandementia in 2022, featuring four tracks that draw on thrash, death, black metal, and hardcore influences, with themes addressing pandemic chaos, denialism, and social decay. A second EP, Odiocracia, followed in 2025 with five tracks recorded with producer Daniel Farias.
Inferno is a thrash metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2021, delivering high-speed riff assaults from the eastern Mediterranean. The band represents Cyprus's emerging thrash metal scene with raw, uncompromising aggression.
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