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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Irate Architect is a technical death metal/grindcore band from Wedel, Germany, active since 2005, delivering two decades of precision-engineered extremity from the Hamburg outskirts. The band channels intricate technical death metal structures through grindcore's explosive energy.
Iratus Nebula is a pagan/black metal band from Munchberg, Germany, formed in 2022, blending nature-worship themes and folk elements with raw black metal from the Franconian Forest of Upper Franconia. The band channels the rugged landscapes of northern Bavaria into atmospheric pagan metal.
Iraventus is a melodic doom/death metal act from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2017 and merging death metal's ferocity with doom's oppressive weight. The project inhabits the crushing intersection where both genres converge.
Irbis is a heavy/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2017 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Irbismax is a heavy/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2017 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Irden is a black/sludge/post-metal band from Osnabruck, Germany, formed in 2020, combining the atmospheric hostility of black metal with the tar-thick heaviness of sludge and post-metal's expansive dynamics. The band creates a dense, multi-layered sonic experience from Lower Saxony.
Irdorath are a black metal band from Liebenfels, Carinthia, formed in 2005 and named after the cursed island in the RPG Gothic II, a reference that signals their mythology-and-disgust lyrical worldview built on anti-Christian themes. Signed to WormHoleDeath Records, the band's discography includes Denial of Creation, The Final Sin, and a 2022 re-recording of their 2007 debut Götterdämmerung.
Ireful is a thrash metal band from Palermo, Italy, active since 2021 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Irem is a black/death metal band from Halle an der Saale, Germany, active since 2006, forging nearly two decades of dual-genre extremity from the Saxon city on the Saale River. The band merges black metal's frozen atmosphere with death metal's crushing weight.
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