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Impetuoso Desdém is a black metal band from Embu das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2009 with a sound rooted in Satanism, blasphemy, and war themes. The band released the EP Luxúria... Blasfêmia Eterna in 2009, appeared on the three-way split Impetuous Infernal Terror (2012) alongside Infernal Execrator and Terror Satan, and issued their debut full-length The World Needs a Holocaust (The New Age, A Primitive World) in 2014 through Nyarlathotep Records, Terrorismo Produções, and Ventos da Morte Records. The lineup includes Harrison Cadáver on vocals and guitar, Laercius Murdergod on guitar, Annubis on bass, and Lord Agnaldus on drums.
Impiety is a black metal band from Sommerda, Germany, active since 2013, forging uncompromising black metal from the Thuringian countryside. Not to be confused with the Singaporean war metal act of the same name, this German incarnation pursues its own path through atmospheric darkness.
Forged in the swamps of Southwest Florida in 2021, Impious Throne traffic in raw, suffocating black metal that feels grown from mold and heat rather than frost, with a hostility all its own.
Impious Vesper is a black metal project from Modena, Italy, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Impium is a black metal band from the Basque Country, Spain, active since 2005, forging atmospheric black metal for two decades from the culturally distinct Basque region. The band's name — Latin for "impious" — signals their blasphemous intent.
Impius is a black metal/dungeon synth project from Spain, active since 2019, blending the raw aggression of black metal with the medieval atmosphere of dungeon synth. The band channels fantasy themes through a dual-genre approach that spans extremity and ambient composition.
Implore is a blackened death metal/grindcore/crust band operating between Hamburg, southern Germany, and Linz, Austria, active since 2014, with a discography spanning from Depopulation through The Burden of Existence and A Decade In The Shadow. The band merges the filth of crust punk with blackened death-grind intensity, including a split release with American powerviolence act ACxDC.
Imponist is a Swiss blackened death metal project formed in 2018, marrying the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the crushing technicality of death metal. The band operates in the shadows of the Swiss underground, crafting compositions of intense extremity.
Black metal band from London, active since 2013. Their infiltration-referencing name channels black metal from the British capital.
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