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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.
Impherya is a death metal band from Florence, Italy, active since 2016 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Impietus is a thrash/death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2011. The band released two recordings in 2023 — the full-length Demons and the single Blind Eye — drawing comparisons to acts like Deicide and Cannibal Corpse with a no-frills approach blending death metal with thrash and grindcore elements.
Impiety is a black metal band from Sommerda, Germany, active since 2013, forging uncompromising black metal from the Thuringian countryside. Not to be confused with the Singaporean war metal act of the same name, this German incarnation pursues its own path through atmospheric darkness.
Forged in the swamps of Southwest Florida in 2021, Impious Throne traffic in raw, suffocating black metal that feels grown from mold and heat rather than frost, with a hostility all its own.
Impious Vesper is a black metal project from Modena, Italy, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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