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Improbus Atrum is a melodic black metal act from Malta, active and channeling melodic sensibilities through the atmospheric intensity of black metal. The project delivers sweeping, emotionally resonant extreme metal.
Small-town Ohio black metal act Impudent have been operating out of Hubbard since 2006, decades of stubborn defiance baked into a sound that owes nothing to trends and everything to spite.
Impure Illumination is a Czech black/death metal project formed in 2015, channeling the darkness of both genres into a potent blend of tremolo-driven fury and guttural heaviness. The band operates in the intersection of black metal's atmospheric hostility and death metal's crushing weight.
Black/death metal band from Finland formed in 2024. Their provocative name channels extreme metal hostility.
Impure Worship is a black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2010 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Gainesville's Impurity carry on the proud Floridian death metal lineage from one of the genre's original breeding grounds, bringing uncompromising, putrid aggression to a scene they've been part of since 2021.
Impurity is a black metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and one of the foundational acts in the Brazilian black/death metal underground. Active since 1988, their early output was released through the legendary Cogumelo Records, including the album Into the Ritual Chamber (1996) and Satanic Metal Kingdom, both of which helped define the raw, Satanic extremity of the South American black metal scene. Their prolific career spans more than eight full-length albums alongside splits and demo recordings.
Imsar is a black metal project from Gomel, Belarus, active since 2013, forging raw black metal from the industrial flatlands of southeastern Belarus. The band represents the Gomel contingent of the country's growing black metal underground.
In a Forest Dark is a gothic/doom/black metal act from Porto, Portugal, active since 2023 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
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