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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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I.rak is a thrash metal band from Nizhyn, Ukraine, active since 2009 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
I.S.S. is a black metal project from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2015 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
I.See.Red is a metalcore band from Athens, Greece, active since 2016 and delivering aggressive, dynamic metal with crushing breakdowns and intense energy. The project channels the power of modern extreme metal.
I4896 is a atmospheric black metal, ambient, trance act from Moscow, Russia, active since 2015 and crafting immersive, expansive compositions that push beyond conventional black metal boundaries. The project blends atmospheric textures with the intensity of extreme metal.
San Francisco's thrash veterans have been sharpening their Bay Area blade since 2017, trading in speed, precision, and that classic Northern California aggression that put the genre on the map.
IAD is a black metal band from Osnabruck, Germany, active since 2008, forging atmospheric black metal from the lowlands of Lower Saxony. The band has spent over fifteen years building a body of work in the German black metal underground.
Iadul is a death metal/grindcore band from Wolfsburg, Germany, formed in 2022, blending guttural death metal with grindcore's frantic velocity. The band channels industrial-city aggression into short, devastating bursts of extremity.
Industrial grindcore/black metal and noise project from the Centre-Val de Loire region, formed in 2021. Their Gnostic deity name channels chaotic, genre-crossing extremity from central France.
Iamdisease is a hardcore/thrash/sludge metal band from Ajdovščina/Črniče/Nova Gorica, Slovenia, active since 2010 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
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