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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Death metal band from Paimio in southwestern Finland, active since 2007 — nearly two decades of death metal from the Varsinais-Suomi region.
Internal Aeon is a industrial death metal band from Karcag, Hungary, active since 2013 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Internal Bleeding is a death metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2025 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Internal Chronicles is a black/doom metal act from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2018 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
Internal Cold is a depressive black metal project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2013 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Internal Conflict are a metalcore and thrash metal band from Leicester, England, formed in 2015. Metal Hammer described their sound as a head-on collision of post-millennial metal, blending brutal and melodic elements across albums like Aporia.
Internal Damage is a grindcore act from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2009 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Internal Decay is a death metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 1993, ranking among Bavaria's longest-running death metal outfits with over three decades of uncompromising heaviness. The band channels Munich's diverse musical landscape into crushing, veteran-level death metal.
Internal Decay was a thrash/death metal band from Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 1994 and now split-up. The band released a four-track demo in 1996, representing the band's sole known recorded output from their active years in the mid-1990s Brazilian underground metal scene.
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