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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Melodic heavy/power metal band from Vaasa on Finland's Ostrobothnian coast, active since 2018. Their sound channels melodic power metal energy from the bilingual coastal city.
Inviolacy is a speed/thrash metal band from Brescia, Italy, active since 2007 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Heavy metal and hard rock band from Ejea de los Caballeros in Aragon, active since 2015. Their sound channels classic metal from the historic medieval town in the Cinco Villas comarca.
Power/thrash/progressive metal band from Helsinki, Finland formed in 2024. Their multi-genre approach delivers ambitious metal from the Finnish capital.
Invisible Hate is a doom metal act from Kragujevac, Serbia, active since 2020 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Invisible Scars are a depressive black metal solo project from Cornwall, England, created by Kenna in 2025. Their debut demo Goodbye Innocence features melancholic riffs and desperate vocals exploring themes of trauma, isolation, and mental decline through raw, lengthy compositions.
Invision is a brutal/technical death metal band from Villa de Mayo, Buenos Aires, formed in 2006, with a lineup anchored by vocalist Dario 'Empty' Buer, guitarists Andres 'Hivvah' and Cristian 'Metal' Laureano, drummer Federico 'Fisura' Puebla, and bassist Franco Fuentes. The band released the four-track EP 'King of Eternal Suicide' in July 2017, featuring songs including 'Conscience Abortion' and 'Aokigahara', and have also issued the albums 'Concepción de Teorías Incalculadas' and 'Panteón de los Extintos'.
Invitado de Piedra is a psychedelic doom and stoner metal band from Santiago, Chile, whose lineup includes Pablo Ravelo (drums), Eduardo Rojas (bass), Felipe Godoy (guitar), and Esteban Delgado (vocals/guitar). The band debuted with the Quema el Sol EP in 2011, followed by the debut full-length Todos Caerán in 2013, and released the sprawling 33-minute single-track album Uroboros in 2021, a fuzz-drenched sludge and drone metal composition recorded at Estudio Proyectil.
InVitro is a sludge metal/metalcore band from Florence, Italy, active since 2016 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
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