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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Ira Tenax is a death/heavy metal band from the Hanau/Frankfurt area of Germany, formed in 2024, merging the guttural intensity of death metal with the riff-driven power of traditional heavy metal. The band delivers a potent hybrid from the Rhine-Main metropolis.
Melodic heavy metal band from Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol, active since 2005 — two decades of melodic metal from the Andalusian resort city.
Progressive/thrash metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 2012. Their sound pushes thrash metal into progressive territory from the Spanish capital.
Heavy metal/hard/punk rock band from the Basque Country, formed in 2024. Their Basque name channels metal and punk energy from the fiercely independent Spanish region.
Iras is a heavy metal band from the Podebrady/Kolin area of the Czech Republic, formed in 2019, playing classic-style heavy metal rooted in the traditions of European iron-fisted riffing. The band channels the genre's timeless energy through straightforward, powerful compositions.
Black/post-metal band from Rennes in Brittany, launched in 2025. Their Latin name — meaning 'anger' — channels aggressive post-inflected black metal from the Breton capital.
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.
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