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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Imopectore was a heavy/doom/black metal band from Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil, drawing on dark, obscure themes across their self-released material. Operating as an independent underground act, the band blended slow doom weight with black metal atmosphere and traditional heavy metal elements. The project eventually split up after a limited activity period in the Brazilian underground scene.
Impacto Profano is a black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded with the explicit aim of delivering fast, aggressive, and technically sharp black metal. In 2006 the band recorded the demo "Invocation to Destruction of Jehovah and Christianity", which also included earlier material recorded as "Propagation of the Blasphemy" as bonus content. They have remained active within the Brazilian underground black metal scene since their formation.
Impaired Cognition is a death/black metal band from Gottingen, Germany, formed in 2023, merging death metal's guttural heaviness with black metal's atmospheric ferocity. The band represents Gottingen's growing extreme metal scene with a dual-genre approach.
Rochester's Impalement channels progressive metal's technical ambition through a thrash metal lens, resulting in compositions that sprawl and mutate without ever sacrificing aggression.
Impavida is an atmospheric/depressive black metal and ambient project originally from North Rhine-Westphalia, later based in Koblenz, Germany, active since 2019. The band layers depressive black metal over ambient textures, creating immersive, emotionally devastating compositions released through Van Records.
Impending Doom is a black/death/thrash metal band from the Weida/Rockendorf area of Thuringia, Germany, active since 2012, wielding a three-pronged attack that draws from black, death, and thrash metal simultaneously. The band merges the cold aggression of black metal with death-thrash velocity from the forests of eastern Thuringia.
Impenetrable Darkness is a black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2012 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Death/black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland active since 2018. Their unapologetic name channels extreme metal from Scotland's largest city.
Boston's Impenitent Thief deal in cold, unrelenting black metal rooted in theological transgression and northern spite. Formed in 2017, their music feels like a confession with no intention of repentance.
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