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Death/black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland active since 2018. Their unapologetic name channels extreme metal from Scotland's largest city.
Impera is a black metal band from Frankenberg, Germany, active since 2016, pursuing atmospheric black metal from the small Hessian town. The band crafts dark, immersive compositions rooted in the genre's Northern European traditions.
Imperceptum is an atmospheric black/funeral doom metal band from Bremen, Germany, active since 2016, merging the glacial pace of funeral doom with the frozen hostility of atmospheric black metal. The band creates vast, suffocating compositions from the Hanseatic city on the Weser.
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.
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.
Melodic black metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland formed in 2023. Their sound channels melodic black metal from the Northern Irish capital.
Imperial Guards is a black metal project from Mo i Rana, Norway, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Norway black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Imperious is an epic black metal band from Bayreuth, Germany, active since 2011, crafting grandiose, sweeping compositions in the tradition of epic black metal's most ambitious practitioners. Based in the city famous for Wagner's operas, the band channels that same sense of grandeur into extreme metal.
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