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Imperium Dekadenz is a black metal duo from Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, featuring Horaz (guitars, keyboards, vocals) and Vespasian (guitars, bass, drums, keyboards), active since 2004 and exploring metaphors of human transience and Roman Empire aesthetics. Their albums — from Procella Vadens (2010) through Into Sorrow Evermore (2023) — are praised for their atmospheric, melodic black metal wrapped in a warm but powerful sound.
Black metal band from Kouvola in southeastern Finland, formed in 2024. Their Latin name — meaning 'imperium of summoning' — adds ritualistic gravitas to their black metal.
Imperium Infernale is a black metal trio from São Paulo, Brazil, composed of vocalist Áscaris, guitarist/bassist Morbius, and drummer Impaler, with a discography spanning from 2006 to 2014. The band draws on second-wave black metal influences, blending raw aggression with melody, and delivers material largely in English with some Portuguese lyrics. Their work has been noted by Brazilian metal press as among the stronger domestic black metal acts.
Imperium Infernalis is a black metal project from Heraklion, Greece, active since 2013 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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.
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