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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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The Hypothesis is a melodic death metal band from Kouvola, Finland, formed in 2016. They play melodic death metal from southeastern Finland.
The Illusionary Contortionist is a progressive black metal project from Leicester, active since 2011. Their music twists black metal conventions through progressive structures and unusual compositional approaches, creating disorienting and immersive sonic experiences.
The Impact is a thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing thrash metal from the Finnish capital.
The Impure, formed in Newport, North Carolina in 2015, work within progressive metal's expansive framework to build something layered and technically ambitious. Their Bandcamp presence under "sixdyframez" suggests a project comfortable operating outside easy genre categorization. They represent the kind of earnest, self-directed progressive metal that thrives in small-town isolation, where genre community is far away but creative focus can be total.
The Inbreds is a stoner metal band from London, active since 1993. As one of the longest-running stoner metal acts in the UK, they have been delivering heavy, fuzz-driven grooves from the British capital for over three decades.
The Indecisive is a melodic death metal band from Porvoo, Finland, formed in 2021. They play melodic death metal from the historic Finnish coastal town.
The Infernal Deceit is a black/death metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2021. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality.
The Inmost Blight is an atmospheric black metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, active since 2015. Their music channels the bleak, windswept atmosphere of northeast England through layered tremolo guitar, blast beats, and ethereal ambience.
The Inner Abyss is a black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2011. They channel atmospheric black metal from the vibrant Leipzig underground.
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