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Black metal band from Guildford in Surrey, active since 2008 — over 15 years of black metal from the English Home Counties.
Massachusetts thrash veterans running since 1997, Iconoclasm are among the longer-tenured acts in the New England extreme underground — their longevity a testament to a sound that has never needed softening.
Iconoclasm is a Belgian black metal act from Aalter, active since 1997, with a discography spanning Marching Evil (2000), Iconoclastic Warfare (2004), and a split with Panchrysia titled The Ultimate Crescendo of Hell (2006). After a 2007 hiatus, the band reunited fifteen years later, remaining one of Flanders' longest-running black metal projects.
Wisconsin thrash/death metallers from Silver Lake who have been tearing through the rural Midwest since 2016, fusing the neck-snapping momentum of thrash with the malevolent texture of death metal.
Kalamazoo death metal outfit active since 2016, drawing on the Great Lakes' rusted industrial character to fuel a downtuned, unsparing assault that follows no trend and answers to no one.
Iconoclastarum XXI is a black metal band from Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2021 as a continuation of the project previously known as Jegfalt, which had been active since 2018. The band released "Demo XXI" on April 7, 2021, a nine-track recording made at Daswolf Studios between October 2018 and February 2019. Their lyrical themes draw on literature and philosophy.
Iconoclastia is a thrash/groove metal band from Brescia, Italy, active since 2013 and blending thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch. The project delivers high-energy, riff-driven metal.
Icons of Brutality is a death metal band from Hoogeveen, Netherlands, active since 2013 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Atlanta's melodic death/black metal hybrid emerged in 2021 with a sound split between soaring melodic hooks and outright blackened hostility — the South's answer to the Gothenburg-Dissection axis.
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