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In Season is a melodic/industrial death metal band from Gödöllő, Hungary, active since 2020 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Black/death metal band from Saint-Germain-en-Laye west of Paris, active since 2015. Their name channels extreme metal from the royal suburb of the French capital.
In Silence is a black/doom metal act from Oslo, Norway, active since 2010 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
In Silent is a doom metal act from Sandomierz, Poland, active since 2016 and merging death metal's ferocity with doom's oppressive weight. The project inhabits the crushing intersection where both genres converge.
Gothic/melodic black metal band from Vantaa in the Helsinki area, active since 2010. Their Latin name — meaning 'in the silence of night' — channels dark atmospherics from the Finnish capital region.
In Slumber are a melodic death metal band from Linz, Upper Austria, founded in 2003 by multi-instrumentalist Wolfgang Rothbauer, who has remained the band's constant creative force across multiple hiatuses. After a thirteen-year gap, they returned with While We Sleep (War Anthem Records, 2022), a nine-track album mixing brutal death metal aggression with introspective melodic leads and themes of dreams and the subconscious.
In Solitude were a Swedish heavy metal band from Uppsala, active from 2002 until their dissolution in 2015. Signed to Metal Blade Records, their 2011 album The World, The Flesh, The Devil landed at number four on Decibel Magazine's Top 40 Extreme Albums of the year, placing them among the foremost practitioners of occult-tinged classic heavy metal in their generation.
In Some Dismals is a death metal/grindcore band from Kirov, Russia, active since 2011 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
In Somnia are a melodic death metal band from Lienz, East Tyrol, Austria, with a Bandcamp discography that includes the album Clouds and a pair of EPs. The name — Latin for "in dreams" — signals an introspective atmosphere that filters melodic death metal through post-metal-influenced textures and emotional restraint.
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