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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Ixaxar is a crust/black/death metal act from Genoa, Italy, active since 2024 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.
Ixchani is a black/doom metal band from Zwijnaarde, Belgium, formed in 2011, merging the frozen bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom. The band crafts slow, oppressive compositions that draw from both traditions to create a suffocating atmosphere.
Ixtab is a black metal project from Khabarovsk, Russia, active since 2025 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
IXXI is a black metal project from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2019 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Izakaron is a symphonic black metal act from Dzerzhinsk, Russia, active since 2015 and weaving orchestral grandeur into the ferocity of black metal. The project delivers cinematic, bombastic extremity with sweeping arrangements.
Izalith is a German black metal project active since 2016, named after the fictional city from the Dark Souls video game series. The band channels the lore and dark fantasy themes of their namesake into atmospheric black metal compositions.
Izbor is a raw black metal project from Rijeka, Croatia, active since 2012 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.
Izgoi is a black metal project from Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Izrod is a black metal project hailing from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2021, pursuing raw and uncompromising Balkan black metal. The band channels the region's bleak landscapes into atmospheric darkness with a stripped-down, visceral approach.
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