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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Insane Asylum are a heavy metal band from Manchester, formed in 2018. They deliver classic heavy metal from the northwest of England.
Insane Breed is a groove metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2015 and delivering heavy, rhythmic riffage with crushing mid-tempo intensity. The project channels the headbanging immediacy of groove metal.
Insane Court is a thrash/death/groove metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2006 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Insane Dead is a avant-garde death metal band from Samara, Russia, active since 2025 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Insane Devotion is a symphonic black metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, active since 2000 and one of the more enduring acts from the city's extreme metal scene. Their discography spans multiple decades, opening with the split release In Inferioribus Terrae alongside Scorner in 2000, and continuing through Slaves Will Serve (2005), Infidel (2015), and Tormento (2022), the latter released via Mindscrape Music.
Insane Madness is a grindcore band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, operating in the deathgrind and crustcore spectrum. The band released the EP Pandemia in July 2024, establishing themselves as a new entry in northeastern Brazil's growing extreme metal underground.
Insane Mind is a death metal band from Ahlen, Germany, active since 2015, forging brutal death metal from the Westphalian industrial belt. The band channels the genre's most aggressive tendencies through relentless sonic assault.
Death metal/grindcore band from Valenciennes in northern France, active since 2017. Their sound fuses death metal with grindcore from the Nord department.
Black metal band from Toulouse in southwestern France, active since 2008 — over 15 years of black metal from the Occitan capital.
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