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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Iron Clad is a heavy metal band from Bruges, Belgium, formed in 2025, incorporating medieval influences into their traditional metal framework. The band fuses historical themes and folk-tinged atmospheres with the iron-clad intensity of classic European heavy metal.
Iron Column is a black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2020, pursuing atmospheric black metal from the Saxon music capital. The band crafts towering, monumental compositions that reflect the structural rigidity suggested by their name.
Heavy/speed metal band from Murcia in southeastern Spain, active since 2012. Their Cold War-referencing name channels classic heavy and speed metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Iron Death is a bestial war metal act from Flanders, Belgium, established in 2021, self-described as a "Flanders War Battalion" delivering warmongering black/death metal straight from the trenches. Their Demo MMXXII features four tracks of raw, chaotic violence tagged as bestial war metal, inspired by the blood-soaked history of Flanders Fields.
Iron Division is a blackened death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2025, merging the atmospheric fury of black metal with death metal's guttural weight. The band represents the cutting edge of the Copenhagen extreme metal scene.
Iron Driver is a heavy metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2014 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Iron Eagle is a thrash metal/hardcore/rac band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2014 and fusing the aggression of thrash metal with hardcore punk's raw energy and attitude. The project delivers high-octane crossover fury.
Iron Echo is a heavy/power metal band from Heilbronn, Germany, formed in 2024, combining the anthemic drive of power metal with traditional heavy metal's riff-driven foundations. The band represents the newest wave of metal from the Neckar Valley.
Iron Eveq Project is a melodic death/black metal act from Poland, active since 2023 and merging the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. The project delivers fierce extremity at the crossroads of both genres.
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