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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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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.
Ireosis are a progressive, groove, and death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2025. Their debut EP Dark Matter delivers five tracks of heavy metal incorporating melodic and progressive elements.
Iress are a Los Angeles heavy alternative band whose music is often described as doomgaze because it fuses shoegaze atmosphere with the weight and patience of doom-influenced rock. Formed in 2010, the group built a sound around Michelle Malley's commanding vocals, slow-blooming guitar layers, dense bass, and drums that favor pressure over flash. Their songs often move at a deliberate pace, letting distortion and melody expand until the emotional weight becomes physical. Iress fit metal-adjacent and noise-heavy rock scope through that combination of heaviness, volume, and atmosphere, even when the music is more spectral than riff-forward. Albums and releases such as Prey, Flaw, and Solace show a band interested in vulnerability as much as force. The vocals can feel huge and mournful, while the guitars create a storm around them rather than simply driving traditional hard rock structures. Iress's best material sounds immersive without becoming passive: the songs have clear hooks and dynamic arcs, but they unfold with a sense of gravity. The band stands out in Los Angeles heavy music because it treats softness and distortion as equally powerful tools.
Irga is a progressive/melodic black metal act from Moscow, Russia, active since 2023 and channeling melodic sensibilities through the atmospheric intensity of black metal. The project delivers sweeping, emotionally resonant extreme metal.
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