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Improbity is a melodic death metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2026 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Impugner is a death metal band from Oslo, Norway, active since 2021 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death/thrash metal band from Nurmo in the Seinäjoki area, formed in 2020. Their sound fuses death and thrash metal from the western Finnish flatlands.
Impulse Noise is a death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil. The duo of Marcelo "Batis" (guitars, bass, and vocals) and Demétrius Locks (drums) released their debut album Aghoris in 2022, a nine-track record on which Batis composed all original material and handled mixing and mastering duties. The album draws on the technical and brutal strains of the São Paulo death metal tradition.
Impulsive Evisceration is a brutal death metal band from Recklinghausen, Germany, active since 2011, delivering guttural, slam-heavy brutality from the northern Ruhr region. The band channels the genre's most extreme tendencies through relentless blasts and guttural vocals.
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Impure is a brutal death metal band from Bottrop, Germany, formed in 2018, crafting savage, uncompromising death metal from the Ruhr industrial heartland. The band deals in maximum heaviness with a focus on visceral impact.
York, Pennsylvania death metal newcomers Impure Conception arrived in 2024 with an old-school approach — straightforward, vicious, and grounded in the mid-Atlantic working-class grit that surrounds them.
California's Impure Consecration have been crafting dense, sacrilegious death metal since 2016, their sound steeped in the kind of anti-theological menace that treats every riff as an act of desecration.
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