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Strychnine.213 (Bonus Track Edition) (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Isolert is a black metal project from Volos, Greece, active since 2015 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Ispovest is a black metal project from Belgrade, Serbia, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Serbia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Issolei is a black metal project from Trondheim, Norway, active since 1994 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Norway black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Istapp is a melodic black metal act from Mjövik, Sweden, active since 2015 and channeling melodic sensibilities through the atmospheric intensity of black metal. The project delivers sweeping, emotionally resonant extreme metal.
Isten is a black/doom metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2015, fusing black metal's atmospheric ferocity with doom metal's glacial heaviness. The band's name — the Hungarian word for "God" — adds a spiritual dimension to their crushing sonic darkness.
Istårn is a progressive/melodic black metal act from Bergen, Norway, active since 2013 and channeling melodic sensibilities through the atmospheric intensity of black metal. The project delivers sweeping, emotionally resonant extreme metal.
Isvind is a black metal project from Oslo, Norway, active since 1996 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Norway black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
It Summons the Shadows is a blackened death metal act from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2025 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.
ItchyGrave is a raw black metal project from United Kingdom, active since 2013 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
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