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Death/black/doom metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, active since 2006 — nearly two decades of crushing extreme metal from the Staffordshire pottery city.
Portland, Maine's Imipolex — named for a fictional material in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow — brings a literary-minded intensity to black/death metal, jagged and cryptic in equal measure.
Immania is a symphonic black/death metal band from Kromeriz, Czech Republic, active since 2007, blending orchestral symphonic elements with extreme metal and electronic textures. Their discography includes Tales of the Damned Souls, Deadly Macabre, and Dance with Faustian Flames, with remastered releases showcasing their evolving sound across nearly two decades.
Immemoratus is a black/death metal act from Brenna, Poland, active since 2017 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.
Immemoreal is a black metal project from Alingsås, Sweden, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Immemorial is a blackened death metal act from Elbląg, Poland, active since 2017 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.
Symphonic black metal band from Turku, Finland active since 2013, layering orchestral grandeur over black metal from Finland's former capital.
Imminence is a black metal project from Stade, Germany, formed in 2024, pursuing raw black metal from the marshlands south of the Elbe estuary. The band represents the newest wave of North German black metal.
Trenton's Immolith has been carving out a reputation in the New Jersey black metal underground since 2012, channeling ritual darkness and mid-period Scandinavian influence into a distinctly East Coast grimness.
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