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Imperium Sacrum is a project from Bielefeld, Germany, active since 2003, evolving from ambient origins into atmospheric black metal territory. Over two decades, the band has shifted from pure soundscape composition to incorporating the tremolo-driven aggression of black metal.
Imperius Profanus is a black metal band from Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, founded in 2009 by Lord Blasphemation, formerly of Profanos. The band released their debut demo Barbaria in early 2009, followed by the full-length Império Profano in 2017 via Ad Bellum Records. Their lyrical content centres on Satanism and occultism.
Imperivm is a thrash metal band from Fuenlabrada, Spain, active since 2017, delivering aggressive thrash from the southern Madrid metropolitan area. The band channels the speed and riff-driven attack of classic thrash through a modern Spanish lens.
Impermanence is a death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2019, exploring themes of transience and mortality through crushing extreme metal. The band channels the philosophical weight of its name into compositions that balance technical precision with visceral brutality.
Impermanent are a London extreme metal band whose early material presents a brutally direct blend of slam, death metal, and hardcore. The project surfaced with Forging Eternity, a short but punishing release that favors dense riffs, guttural vocals, breakdown pressure, and a production style built to make each hit land with physical weight. Tracks such as "Mass Psychogenic Illness," "Spiralisation," "Defilement of Self," and "Corporal Immortality" move between churning death metal and hardcore-derived impact, keeping the arrangements compact while still leaving room for abrupt rhythmic shifts. The band's sound is not ornate or atmospheric in the traditional sense; it is focused on compression, force, and the ugly momentum of heavy music stripped down to its most violent impulses. Impermanent's identity is still in its earliest public phase, but the first release already establishes a clear direction: low-tuned death metal with slam brutality, hardcore pacing, and a cold, clinical sense of heaviness. The result is music built for listeners who want death metal's extremity and hardcore's immediacy in the same body.
Black metal band from Kuopio in eastern Finland, active since 2016. Their sound channels raw black metal from the Savo lakeland.
Impery was a black metal band from Caracas, Venezuela, active from 2005 until their eventual split-up, releasing music on Satanarsa Records. The band built a substantial catalog rooted in anti-Christian and Satanic themes, spanning early demos through three full-lengths: "I" (2013), "Ars Goetia" (2015), and "II - La mirada muerta de la serpiente" (2017), with a final album, "Cristo fue mortal," appearing in 2019. Their Bandcamp page presents a dark aesthetic consistent with their occult lyrical focus.
Impetra is a traditional heavy metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed by two cousins and active from 2016 into 2017 before going on hold. Their debut demo "It's About Honor," recorded at Mazazor Studio in February 2016, introduced their approach to classic heavy metal with lyrical themes centered on nostalgia, excess, and self-destruction.
Impetuoso Desdém is a black metal band from Embu das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2009 with a sound rooted in Satanism, blasphemy, and war themes. The band released the EP Luxúria... Blasfêmia Eterna in 2009, appeared on the three-way split Impetuous Infernal Terror (2012) alongside Infernal Execrator and Terror Satan, and issued their debut full-length The World Needs a Holocaust (The New Age, A Primitive World) in 2014 through Nyarlathotep Records, Terrorismo Produções, and Ventos da Morte Records. The lineup includes Harrison Cadáver on vocals and guitar, Laercius Murdergod on guitar, Annubis on bass, and Lord Agnaldus on drums.
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