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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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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.
Iter Pactum is a atmospheric black metal act from Norway, active since 2014 and crafting immersive, expansive compositions that push beyond conventional black metal boundaries. The project blends atmospheric textures with the intensity of extreme metal.
Itheist is a black/death metal act from Plymouth, United Kingdom, active since 2019 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.
Ithenath is a black metal project from Padua, Italy, active since 2013 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Ithil is a black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Itk is a symphonic black metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2024, layering orchestral grandeur over black metal ferocity. The band represents the newest wave of Estonian extreme metal.
Pagan black metal band from El Prat de Llobregat near Barcelona. Their sound channels ancient pagan themes through black metal from the Catalan coast.
Melodic black/death metal band from Pori on Finland's western coast, formed in 2021. Their sound channels melodic extreme metal from the Satakunta region.
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