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Named for the Celtic festival heralding spring's return, Louisville's Imbolc brings death metal darkness rooted in the rich underground tradition Louisville has quietly nurtured for decades.
Death metal band from Kempele near Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2019. Their sound delivers death metal from the northern Ostrobothnian region.
Imflawed is a groove/thrash metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2019 and comprising Arthur Santos (guitar/vocals), Jefte Felipe (lead guitar), Alisson Nascimento (bass/vocals), and Paulo Henrique (drums). The band released the live album "Live at Hellcife" in April 2021, recorded at L.A. Studios in Recife and featuring a tribute to local legends Chico Science e Nação Zumbi woven into the set.
Imga is a thrash/death metal band from Samara, Russia, active since 2015 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
Imha Tarikat is a German black metal band distributed through Prophecy Productions, whose name translates from Turkish as "Order of Destruction." Across releases including Kara Ihlas, Sternenberster, Hearts Unchained - At War With A Passionless World, and Confessing Darkness, the band channels passionate, intense black metal under a philosophy they call "PASSION BURSTING."
Imhotep is a death metal band from Russia, active since 2019 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death/black/doom metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, active since 2006 — nearly two decades of crushing extreme metal from the Staffordshire pottery city.
Portland, Maine's Imipolex — named for a fictional material in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow — brings a literary-minded intensity to black/death metal, jagged and cryptic in equal measure.
Imitation is a brutal death metal band from Khrestivka, Ukraine, active since 2020 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
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