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Incubo is a depressive black metal/ambient project from Latina, Italy, active since 2016 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Inculcator are a black/thrash metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2016. Their debut Void Abecedary showcases occult-themed extreme metal with technical prowess across extended compositions, drawing comparisons to Swedish black metal.
Inculpatory was a death metal band from Concepción, Chile, whose lineup included vocalist Gonzalo Novoa, guitarist Camilo Bustos, drummer Gabriel Jara, and bassist Francisco Nocetti. The band released their debut EP Instinto Asesino in March 2014, a three-track recording featuring Spanish-language tracks with horror and extreme metal themes.
Inculter is a blackened thrash metal act from Fusa, Norway, active since 2012 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Incurable is a thrash/death metal band from Cejkovice, Czech Republic, active since 2013, channeling the wine-growing village's pastoral backdrop into ferocious thrash-death aggression. The band merges the velocity of thrash with the heaviness of death metal in equal measure.
Incuratus is a death/black metal act from Kalmar, Sweden, active since 2021 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.
Incurse is a death/groove metal band from Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2017. The band blends death, groove, progressive, and heavy metal influences, releasing the single "Tormented Scars" in May 2019 as a preview of their debut album Constant Violence.
Incursed is a folk metal band from Aranda de Duero, Spain, active since 2012, weaving Castilian folk traditions into a heavy metal framework. The band draws on the wine-producing heartland of the Ribera del Duero for their thematic and musical inspiration.
Black/thrash metal band from Tampere, Finland formed in 2020. Their sound fuses black metal's atmosphere with thrash metal's velocity from Finland's third-largest city.
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