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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Imperfection is a groove metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2017, built on chugging, rhythmic heaviness and down-tuned aggression. The band delivers punishing groove metal riffs from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolis.
Imperi de Tenebra is a raw black metal band from Catalonia, Spain, formed in 2025, pursuing lo-fi black metal steeped in darkness. The band's name — Catalan for "Empire of Darkness" — signals their commitment to the genre's most unpolished traditions.
Imperia is a symphonic metal band from Netherlands (early); Germany / Finland / Norway / Belgium (later), Netherlands, active since 1996 and weaving orchestral grandeur into heavy metal songwriting. The project delivers cinematic, bombastic compositions with sweeping arrangements.
Devastating Progressive Melodic Death Metal / Deathcore out of Texas.
Imperial Age is a symphonic metal band from Moscow (early); Moscow, Russia, active since 2012 and weaving orchestral grandeur into heavy metal songwriting. The project delivers cinematic, bombastic compositions with sweeping arrangements.
Imperial Child is a heavy/progressive metal band from Helleland, Norway, active since 2020 and crafting ambitious, technically proficient compositions that push beyond conventional metal boundaries. The project channels progressive sophistication.
Jacksonville's Imperial Conquest have fused blackened hostility with death metal's brute precision since 2010, their Florida roots lending an extra layer of filth to an already scorched sound.
Imperial Cult is a atmospheric black metal act from Nijmegen, Netherlands, active since 2019 and crafting immersive, expansive compositions that push beyond conventional black metal boundaries. The project blends atmospheric textures with the intensity of extreme metal.
Imperial Darkness is a black metal project from Illion, Greece, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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