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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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New Jersey's Immortal Souls emerged from South Plainfield in 2024 with thrash metal that pays clear dues to the genre's East Coast lineage — aggressive, precise, and ready to make up for lost time.
Immortal Suicide is a death metal band from Khabarovsk, Russia, active since 2008 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Immortal Visions is a death/doom metal act from Biłgoraj, Poland, active since 2017 and merging death metal's ferocity with doom's oppressive weight. The project inhabits the crushing intersection where both genres converge.
Immortalis is a death metal band from Gottingen, Germany, active since 2013, forging brutal death metal from the university city in Lower Saxony. The band has spent over a decade honing a punishing sound rooted in the genre's most aggressive traditions.
McHenry County, Illinois' Immortum started with thrash and death metal before pivoting toward blacker, more abrasive territory — a band still in flux, following the music wherever it gets darkest.
Immortuos is a death metal band from Marília, São Paulo, Brazil, formed around 2012 by guitarist and vocalist Jabah Contardi, bassist Rogério Pereira, and drummer João Moreira. The trio released the demo "Infanticídio" in 2012 and followed it with the album "Estágio Terminal" in 2014. The band has been on hold since the mid-2010s, leaving behind a compact but focused body of work rooted in old-school death metal.
Immured is a death metal/crust-grindcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2005, delivering two decades of ferocious extremity that merges death metal's guttural brutality with crust punk and grindcore's raw velocity. The band channels Franconia's underground energy into relentless bursts of sonic violence.
Immurer is a death metal band from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, formed in 2024, forging brutal death metal from the rural Baltic coastland of northeastern Germany. The band represents the newest generation of East German death metal.
Impact 36 is a melodic death metal band from Neunkirchen, Germany, active since 2014, blending Scandinavian-influenced melodies with crushing death metal heaviness. The band delivers hook-laden melodeath from the Saarland region.
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