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Thrash metal/crossover band from France active since 2016. Their sound fuses thrash speed with hardcore punk crossover energy.
Initiate Decay is a death metal band from Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, active since 2018 and rooted in the brutal and technical ends of the genre. Their debut release, Awaken the Extinction (2018), established the project's dense, aggressive sound, with the band describing their approach as combining brutality with technical complexity. The lineup has included Aires Trajano and Alexandre Graessler among its members.
Heavy metal band with doom metal and rock influences from Helsinki, active since 2015. Their eclectic approach blends classic heavy metal with doom and rock from the Finnish capital.
Initium is a black metal project from Greece, active since 2011 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Initium Mortuus is a depressive black metal project from Szekszárd, Hungary, active since 2015 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Initium Noctis is an atmospheric/depressive black metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2026, crafting desolate, emotionally harrowing black metal. The band's name — Latin for "beginning of night" — reflects their immersion in the genre's most introspective and melancholic traditions.
Iniuria is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Gutersloh, Germany, active since 2012, merging the harmonic richness of melodic death metal with thrash metal's speed and precision. Over a decade of activity, the band has refined a potent dual-genre attack from East Westphalia.
Injector is a thrash metal band from Cartagena, Spain, active since 2013, delivering high-velocity thrash from the Mediterranean naval port. Over a decade, the band has forged aggressive, riff-driven compositions from the Murcia coast.
Injekting Khaos is a black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2013 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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