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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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Progressive/thrash metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 2012. Their sound pushes thrash metal into progressive territory from the Spanish capital.
Ireosis are a progressive, groove, and death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2025. Their debut EP Dark Matter delivers five tracks of heavy metal incorporating melodic and progressive elements.
Irga is a progressive/melodic black metal act from Moscow, Russia, active since 2023 and channeling melodic sensibilities through the atmospheric intensity of black metal. The project delivers sweeping, emotionally resonant extreme metal.
Progressive thrash metal band from Nancy in Lorraine, formed in 2019. Their sound pushes thrash metal into progressive territory from northeastern France.
Irreversible Mechanism is a Minsk-based progressive/technical metal project featuring Vladislav Nekrash on guitar and bass, Andrew Parmon on guitar, and Dan Presland on drums. Originally rooted in progressive death metal before incorporating stoner rock elements, the band is known for highly technical, instrumental-leaning compositions produced, mixed, and mastered entirely by Nekrash.
Irreversum is a progressive thrash/death metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2012 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Isgherurd Morth is a avant-garde/progressive black metal project from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, active since 2021 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Iskalde Morket is a progressive black metal project from Norwich, United Kingdom, active since 2014 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the United Kingdom black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Isolirion is a progressive/technical groove/thrash metal band from Pantigliate (Milan), Italy, active since 2020 and blending thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch. The project delivers high-energy, riff-driven metal.
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