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Improbus Atrum is a melodic black metal act from Malta, active and channeling melodic sensibilities through the atmospheric intensity of black metal. The project delivers sweeping, emotionally resonant extreme metal.
ImproVision is a progressive metal band from Hamar, Norway, active since 2024 and crafting ambitious, technically proficient compositions that push beyond conventional metal boundaries. The project channels progressive sophistication.
Small-town Ohio black metal act Impudent have been operating out of Hubbard since 2006, decades of stubborn defiance baked into a sound that owes nothing to trends and everything to spite.
Impugned is a grindcore project from Argentina helmed by Nicolas Grind, with international collaborators contributing guitars and bass. The band appeared on the 2021 four-way split "State of World Deception" alongside Irradiated (USA), Scumeater (Poland), and Meatus (Canada), released through Pornographic Gore Records and Grabaxiones Inframundo.
Impugner is a death metal band from Oslo, Norway, active since 2021 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death/thrash metal band from Nurmo in the Seinäjoki area, formed in 2020. Their sound fuses death and thrash metal from the western Finnish flatlands.
Impulse Noise is a death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil. The duo of Marcelo "Batis" (guitars, bass, and vocals) and Demétrius Locks (drums) released their debut album Aghoris in 2022, a nine-track record on which Batis composed all original material and handled mixing and mastering duties. The album draws on the technical and brutal strains of the São Paulo death metal tradition.
Impulsive Evisceration is a brutal death metal band from Recklinghausen, Germany, active since 2011, delivering guttural, slam-heavy brutality from the northern Ruhr region. The band channels the genre's most extreme tendencies through relentless blasts and guttural vocals.
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