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Evidence (2023)
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Depressive black metal band from Zaragoza in Aragon, formed in 2024. Their evocative name captures the emotional isolation channeled through their depressive black metal from the Ebro River city.
Heavy/power metal band from Móstoles in the Madrid area, active since 2017. Their Spanish name — meaning 'invader' — channels classic power metal aggression from the capital region.
Invasão Bestial is an old school death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded in 2016 by guitarrist Italo, bassist Kadu, and drummer Biquinho. Operating as an independent act within the Rio underground scene, the band pursues an aggressive, no-frills approach to the genre rooted in anti-religious themes and raw brutality.
Invazão is a death metal and grindcore band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, active since 2000, making them one of the longer-running acts in their local underground scene. The band released the grindcore record "No Religion," and their lyrical themes address anti-government and anti-pollution subjects alongside the genre's characteristic intensity.
InVeins is a blackened death metal/deathcore band from Jirkov, Czech Republic, formed in 2024, merging the atmospheric darkness of blackened death metal with the punishing breakdowns of deathcore. The band represents one of the newest entries in the Czech extreme metal scene.
Progressive metalcore blending atmospheric textures with heavy breakdowns. Signed to UNFD.
Invented God is a death metal band from Chojnice, Poland, active since 2022 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Inverloch formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2011, featuring Paul Mazziotta and Matthew Skarajew, veterans of the pioneering early-1990s doom/death act diSEMBOWELMENT. Signed to Relapse Records, the band released the EP Dusk | Subside in 2012 and the full-length Distance | Collapsed in 2016, carrying forward a deeply sepulchral death/doom tradition rooted in their earlier project's legacy.
Inverna is a depressive black metal project from Cugnasco in the Swiss canton of Ticino, formed in 2023, channeling profound despair through lo-fi black metal. The band's Italian-speaking Swiss origins lend a distinct Southern Alpine melancholy to their bleak sonic visions.
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