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Impatto is a thrash/heavy metal band from Chioggia (Venice), Italy, active since 2024 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Impavida is an atmospheric/depressive black metal and ambient project originally from North Rhine-Westphalia, later based in Koblenz, Germany, active since 2019. The band layers depressive black metal over ambient textures, creating immersive, emotionally devastating compositions released through Van Records.
Groove/death metal band from Manchester, active since 2016. Their Latin name — meaning 'fearless' — channels rhythmic death metal from the northern English capital.
Impedigon is one of Belgium's longest-running melodic death metal bands, hailing from Waregem and active since 1990, predating the genre's mainstream breakthrough. The band has spent over three decades forging Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the heart of West Flanders.
Impending Doom is a black/death/thrash metal band from the Weida/Rockendorf area of Thuringia, Germany, active since 2012, wielding a three-pronged attack that draws from black, death, and thrash metal simultaneously. The band merges the cold aggression of black metal with death-thrash velocity from the forests of eastern Thuringia.
Impending Mindfuck is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2022, delivering maximum sonic extremity through short, devastating compositions. The band channels the intersection of brutality and speed from the heart of northern Hesse.
Impenetrable Darkness is a black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2012 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Impenitence is a death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, founded in 2007 by Julian, Yasen, and Dimitar, spanning brutal, progressive, and technical death metal approaches. Their 2016 debut Monuments of Contempt is a twelve-track statement of intent across multiple death metal subgenres, released as both digital and CD digipak with a twelve-page booklet.
Death/black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland active since 2018. Their unapologetic name channels extreme metal from Scotland's largest city.
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