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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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Irreversible Mechanism is a Minsk-based progressive/technical metal project featuring Vladislav Nekrash on guitar and bass, Andrew Parmon on guitar, and Dan Presland on drums. Originally rooted in progressive death metal before incorporating stoner rock elements, the band is known for highly technical, instrumental-leaning compositions produced, mixed, and mastered entirely by Nekrash.
Irreversum is a progressive thrash/death metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2012 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Irrgott is a German black metal project formed in 2022, dealing in raw, uncompromising black metal steeped in themes of spiritual desolation. The band's name — a German term for false god or heresy — signals their blasphemous intent.
Death metal band with groove influences from Lappeenranta in southeastern Finland, active since 2017. Their sound adds rhythmic groove elements to death metal from the South Karelian lakeland.
Irritation is a thrash metal with hardcore elements band from Wageningen, Netherlands, 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.
Irritator was a thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2020 with a lineup of Renato Castro on vocals, Matheus Fortunato and Eduardo Covello on guitars, Rafael Savone on bass, and Lucas Prado on drums. The band recorded a self-titled demo featuring five tracks sung entirely in Portuguese, addressing themes of social chaos, political corruption, and inequality — drawing sonic comparisons to Sepultura and Pantera. Praised by Brazilian metal media outlet Whiplash.Net for their maturity and conviction, the band has since split up.
Irritert is a depressive black metal project from Moscow, Russia, active since 2024 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Irritus is a black metal/ambient project from Turkey, active since 2022 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Turkey black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Irrlicht are a black and gothic metal band from Innsbruck with a long history in the Austrian dark music scene, performing at events including the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig and gaining attention in Switzerland through television appearances in the early 2000s. Their discography includes multiple full-lengths such as De/KadenZ (2003) and Endlich, blending cold black metal with gothic atmosphere and dark synthesizer textures.
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