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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Isten is a black/doom metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2015, fusing black metal's atmospheric ferocity with doom metal's glacial heaviness. The band's name — the Hungarian word for "God" — adds a spiritual dimension to their crushing sonic darkness.
Heavy metal band from Logroño in La Rioja, active since 2017. Their sound channels classic heavy metal from the Spanish wine country capital.
Istrulity is a death/thrash metal band from Čačak, Serbia, active since 2011 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Istårn is a progressive/melodic black metal act from Bergen, Norway, active since 2013 and channeling melodic sensibilities through the atmospheric intensity of black metal. The project delivers sweeping, emotionally resonant extreme metal.
Isurus is a progressive metal band from London, United Kingdom, active since 2011 and crafting ambitious, technically proficient compositions that push beyond conventional metal boundaries. The project channels progressive sophistication.
Isvind is a black metal project from Oslo, Norway, active since 1996 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Norway black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
It Creeps and It Crawls is a death metal band from St. Ives, United Kingdom, active since 2013 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
It Lives is a heavy/speed metal band from Netherlands, active since 2021 and delivering high-velocity, exhilarating metal with relentless momentum. The project channels the urgency and excitement of speed metal.
It Summons the Shadows is a blackened death metal act from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2025 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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