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Impherya is a death metal band from Florence, Italy, active since 2016 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Impietus is a thrash/death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2011. The band released two recordings in 2023 — the full-length Demons and the single Blind Eye — drawing comparisons to acts like Deicide and Cannibal Corpse with a no-frills approach blending death metal with thrash and grindcore elements.
Las Vegas's Implements of Hell evolved from deathcore roots into full-on slam brutality, their music as grotesque and relentless as the city they call home — formed in 2019 and getting heavier ever since.
Hudson Valley newcomers Implode arrived in 2024 dragging sludge metal's slow, crushing weight through the post-industrial quiet of Wappingers Falls, building dense, suffocating walls of noise with methodical intent.
Implodead is a death metal/death 'n' roll act from Bari, Italy, active since 2009 and fusing death metal's aggressive edge with the groove and swagger of rock and roll. The project delivers headbanging, riff-driven fury.
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.
Imposer is a death metal band from Treviso, Italy, active since 2024 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Grindcore/death metal band from Leeds in West Yorkshire, active since 2015. Their sound fuses grindcore chaos with death metal from the northern English city.
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