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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Thrash metal band from Ballymoney in Northern Ireland, active since 2016. Their sound channels thrash aggression from the rural Antrim countryside.
Black metal band from Joensuu in eastern Finland near the Russian border, formed in 2019. Their sound channels black metal from the North Karelian lakeland.
Illfigure is a heavy/groove metal band from Norrköping, Sweden, active since 1995 and delivering heavy, rhythmic riffage with crushing mid-tempo intensity. The project channels the headbanging immediacy of groove metal.
Illidiance is a symphonic black metal act from Taganrog, Russia, active since 2019 and weaving orchestral grandeur into the ferocity of black metal. The project delivers cinematic, bombastic extremity with sweeping arrangements.
Illkynja is a black metal project from Iceland, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Iceland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Illmara is a black metal project from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Illminite is a groove/death metal band from the Schwalm region of Germany, formed in 2017, blending the rhythmic crunch of groove metal with the heaviness of death metal. The band delivers punishing, riff-driven compositions from the rural heartland of Hesse.
Illogicist is a technical death metal band from Aosta, Italy, active since 2007 and pushing death metal through precision-engineered technical complexity. The project channels intricate musicianship and compositional ambition.
Illomened is a death/black metal act from Lentvaris, Lithuania, active since 2018 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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