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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Icon of Hyemes is a death metal band from Bologna, Italy, active since 2014 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Icon of Sin is a symphonic/melodic death metal band from Alessandria, Italy, active since 2013 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Icons of Brutality is a death metal band from Hoogeveen, Netherlands, active since 2013 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Melodic doom/death metal band from Bordeaux in southwestern France, active since 2014. Their sound merges melodic elements with doom/death metal's crushing weight from the Aquitaine wine capital.
Ide Gen is a melodic death metal band from Bicske, Hungary, active since 2011 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Ides is a doom/death metal act from Gouda/Reeuwijk, Netherlands, active since 2012 and merging death metal's ferocity with doom's oppressive weight. The project inhabits the crushing intersection where both genres converge.
Idiosyncrasy is a death/thrash metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2017, merging the guttural intensity of death metal with thrash metal's relentless velocity. The band channels the Danish capital's diverse metal scene into a potent dual-genre assault.
Idolatress is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2016 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Black/death metal band from Kerava in the Helsinki metropolitan area, formed in 2020. Their Mesopotamian deity name channels extreme metal from the Finnish capital region.
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