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Boston's Impenitent Thief deal in cold, unrelenting black metal rooted in theological transgression and northern spite. Formed in 2017, their music feels like a confession with no intention of repentance.
Impera is a black metal band from Frankenberg, Germany, active since 2016, pursuing atmospheric black metal from the small Hessian town. The band crafts dark, immersive compositions rooted in the genre's Northern European traditions.
Impera Regnum is a metalcore and death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia. The band released their debut full-length The Honor of Tribal Blood in 2025.
Impera Regnum is a metalcore and death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia. The band released their debut full-length The Honor of Tribal Blood in 2025.
Imperador Belial is an old school black metal band from São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2013. The band released the album "Morbid Rites" in 2013 through Narcoleptica Productions, followed by "Curse of Belial", establishing themselves as consistent contributors to the Brazilian black metal underground. Their sound is rooted in raw, orthodox black metal tradition.
Technical death metal band from Lancaster in northwestern England, active since 2014. Their sound channels precise, complex death metal from the Lancashire university city.
Imperceptum is an atmospheric black/funeral doom metal band from Bremen, Germany, active since 2016, merging the glacial pace of funeral doom with the frozen hostility of atmospheric black metal. The band creates vast, suffocating compositions from the Hanseatic city on the Weser.
Imperfect World is a deathcore band from Ukraine, active since 2018 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Imperfecta is a heavy/thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose concept was developed by guitarist Nilmon Filho over more than a decade before the official debut in 2021. The band released their debut album "Broken Humanity" in 2021, marking the formal arrival of a project long in gestation. Their music channels classic thrash metal aggression within the vibrant Rio de Janeiro heavy metal scene.
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