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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)
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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.
Illuminator is a progressive/speed metal band from Hof, Germany, formed in 2020, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the velocity and urgency of speed metal. The band fuses complex arrangements with relentless momentum from the Franconian border town.
In Extremis is a thrash/speed metal band from Libina, Czech Republic, active since 2013, delivering rapid-fire riff attacks rooted in the classic thrash and speed metal traditions. The band channels the urgency of early Teutonic thrash through a Moravian sensibility.
Incineration A.D. is a blackened speed/thrash metal act from Athens, Greece, active since 2022 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Infection is a speed metal band from Bretten, Germany, active since 2007, delivering blistering, velocity-driven metal in the tradition of the genre's late-1980s peak. Nearly two decades in, the band remains committed to the pure adrenaline rush of high-speed riffing.
Infernal Assault is a black/speed metal band from Koblenz, Germany, active since 2008, blending the raw ferocity of black metal with the relentless velocity of speed metal. The band delivers a blistering hybrid from the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers.
Infernal Bloodshed is a black/speed metal project from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2022 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Heavy/speed/thrash metal band from Paltamo in the Kainuu region of northeastern Finland, formed in 2019. Their triple-genre assault delivers metal velocity from the remote Finnish interior.
Inhuman War is a heavy/speed metal band from the Essen/Bochum area of Germany, formed in 2020, blending classic heavy metal power with the relentless velocity of speed metal. The band delivers a high-octane metal assault from the Ruhr Valley.
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