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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Iblis is a symphonic black/death metal act from Como, Italy, active since 2020 and weaving orchestral grandeur into the ferocity of black metal. The project delivers cinematic, bombastic extremity with sweeping arrangements.
Iblis Rising is a doom metal act from Dorogobuzh, Russia, active since 2014 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Ibridoma is a heavy/power metal band from Morrovalle (Macerata), Italy, active since 2004 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Icare is a post-black metal band from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, originally founded in 2016 as a black/grind outfit before evolving toward atmospheric post-black metal. Their 2022 album Charogne is a single forty-three-minute composition inspired by Charles Baudelaire's poem "Une Charogne," exploring mortality through contrasting tumultuous and contemplative passages.
Icarian is a death metal band from Halen, Belgium, formed in 2016, forging brutal and unrelenting extreme metal. The project channels classic death metal traditions through a modern Belgian lens with a focus on heaviness and intensity.
Icaro is a power/progressive metal band from Puerto Real, Spain, active since 2012, blending the soaring anthems of power metal with progressive compositional ambition. The band channels the Bay of Cadiz's maritime energy into epic, technically demanding metal.
Icaros is a symphonic power metal band from Oss, Netherlands, active since 2011 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Icarus is a progressive melodic heavy metal band from the Bielefeld/Gutersloh area of Germany, active since 2003, blending intricate progressive structures with soaring melodic sensibilities. Over two decades, the band has developed a sound that balances technical ambition with accessible heavy metal hooks.
Icarus Burns is a psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025, channeling the hazy, riff-heavy aesthetics of stoner and doom metal through a psychedelic lens. The band represents Berlin's thriving underground with a sound that merges crushing heaviness with mind-expanding sonic textures.
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