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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.
Thrash metal band from Lorient in Brittany, active since 2016. Their name channels thrash metal urgency from the Atlantic port city.
Impacto Profano is a black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded with the explicit aim of delivering fast, aggressive, and technically sharp black metal. In 2006 the band recorded the demo "Invocation to Destruction of Jehovah and Christianity", which also included earlier material recorded as "Propagation of the Blasphemy" as bonus content. They have remained active within the Brazilian underground black metal scene since their formation.
Impactor is a thrash metal band from the Simmern/Rhein-Hunsruck region of Germany, formed in 2018, delivering high-velocity thrash from the wooded highlands of the Hunsruck. The band channels classic Teutonic thrash energy through a modern lens.
Impair is a death metal band from Wrocław, Poland, active since 2023 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Impaired is a brutal death metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, active since 2017 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
Impaired Cognition is a death/black metal band from Gottingen, Germany, formed in 2023, merging death metal's guttural heaviness with black metal's atmospheric ferocity. The band represents Gottingen's growing extreme metal scene with a dual-genre approach.
Impale is a power metal band from Kristinehamn, Sweden, active since 2013 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Oakland's Impaled have spent nearly two decades sharpening a death metal and grindcore sound with surgical humor and genuine brutality — one of the Bay Area's most reliably visceral underground acts.
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