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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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In Tenebra is a symphonic/gothic metal act from Perugia, Italy, active since 2012 and weaving dark romanticism and heavy atmospherics into its sound. The project channels the melancholy and grandeur of gothic metal.
In the Woods... is a black metal, gothic/progressive metal project from Kristiansand, Norway, active since 2000 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Norway black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
In.verno is a progressive gothic metal band from Vigo, Spain, active since 2009, blending the dark elegance of gothic metal with progressive compositional ambition. The band channels the Atlantic atmosphere of Galicia's largest city into dramatic, layered compositions.
Incalm is a band from Blatnice pod Svatym Antominkem, Czech Republic, formed in 2018, initially blending gothic and death metal before evolving toward groove metal and metalcore. The band's stylistic journey traces a path from dark romanticism to modern rhythmic heaviness.
Incassum are a melodic death/gothic metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2017. Their sound merges melodic death metal aggression with gothic atmosphere and dark melodies.
Finnish metal band from Vaasa active since the early 2010s, evolving from melodic death metal into melodic heavy/gothic metal territory. Their stylistic evolution reflects a move toward more accessible, atmospheric metal.
Incoming is a death/gothic/nu-metal band from Rotterdam, Netherlands, active since 2021 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Indian Fall is a symphonic gothic/black metal act from Brașov, Romania, active since 2009 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.
Inertia is a gothic/death metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 1996, making them one of the capital's most enduring extreme metal acts. Nearly three decades of output have seen the band perfect their fusion of gothic elegance and death metal brutality.
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