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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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Ierru is a black metal project from Ittiri (Sassari), Italy, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Ambient/depressive black metal band from London, active since 2014. Their sound layers ambient textures over depressive black metal from the British capital.
Ieschure is a black metal project from Rivne, Ukraine, active since 2017 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Ukraine black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Iesvchrist is a black metal project from Møre og Romsdal, Norway, active since 2015 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Norway black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Black metal band from Rouen in Normandy, formed in 2019. Their name — evoking the French word for hell — channels black metal from the historic Norman capital.
Black metal band from Scotland, active since 2016. Their Scottish Gaelic name channels raw black metal from the Scottish Highlands.
Black metal band from Sheffield, formed in 2024. Their Islamic mythology name — referencing a fire spirit — channels black metal from the Steel City.
Ifryt is a experimental black/speed metal project from Żory, Poland, active since 2017 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Poland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Folk/black metal band from Brittany, active since 2017, evolving from early pure black metal into folk-infused territory. Their Celtic Breton roots feed naturally into folk metal's acoustic traditions.
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