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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Injured is a thrash metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, delivering high-velocity thrash from the Franconian university city. The band channels classic thrash metal energy through tight, riff-driven compositions.
Death metal/grindcore band from Taverny in the Val-d'Oise suburbs of Paris, active since 2017. Their Latin name — meaning 'injury' — channels extreme metal from the Île-de-France.
Injustice System is a stoner/post-metal band from Kamen, Germany, active since 2014, building dense, heavy compositions that merge the hazy riffs of stoner metal with the expansive dynamics of post-metal. The band delivers weighty, immersive music from the Westphalian town between Dortmund and Hamm.
Inkarna is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Cologne, Germany, active since 2013, fusing Gothenburg-school melodic death metal with modern metalcore intensity. The band channels the Rhine metropolis's diverse music scene into emotionally charged, hook-driven extremity.
Inkblack is a death metal band from Rotterdam, Netherlands, active since 2016 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Raw black metal band from Le Mans in western France, formed in 2020. Their inquisition-referencing name channels lo-fi black metal from the Sarthe department.
Inkorner is a death/doom metal act from Donetsk, Ukraine, active since 2016 and merging death metal's ferocity with doom's oppressive weight. The project inhabits the crushing intersection where both genres converge.
Thrash/speed metal band from Jyväskylä in central Finland, active since 2014. Their inquisition-referencing name channels high-velocity metal from the Finnish lakeland.
Progressive metal band from Vantaa in the Helsinki area, formed in 2019. Their sound explores progressive metal's structural complexity from the Finnish capital region.
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