Savage Death Metal from Houston.

McHenry County, Illinois' Immortum started with thrash and death metal before pivoting toward blacker, more abrasive territory — a band still in flux, following the music wherever it gets darkest.

Rochester's Impalement channels progressive metal's technical ambition through a thrash metal lens, resulting in compositions that sprawl and mutate without ever sacrificing aggression.

Boston's Impenitent Thief deal in cold, unrelenting black metal rooted in theological transgression and northern spite. Formed in 2017, their music feels like a confession with no intention of repentance.

Jacksonville's Imperial Conquest have fused blackened hostility with death metal's brute precision since 2010, their Florida roots lending an extra layer of filth to an already scorched sound.

New York City's Imperial Triumphant are one of the most distinctive voices in avant-garde black metal, sculpting dissonant, jazz-inflected nightmares that evoke Manhattan's architectural excess and moral rot. Their work since 2010 reads like a fever dream scored to the skyline.

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.

Milwaukee's Imprecation of Love embrace the ugliest corners of raw black metal with a perverse name and a sound to match — lo-fi, primitive, and intensely personal since their 2024 formation.

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.

Gainesville's Impurity carry on the proud Floridian death metal lineage from one of the genre's original breeding grounds, bringing uncompromising, putrid aggression to a scene they've been part of since 2021.

San Pedro's In Abominabiles Facti Sunt Carpi operate at the extremes of blackened death metal with a name pulled from scripture and a sound that suggests total spiritual collapse, active since 2018.

Atlanta's In Chasms Deep began as a symphonic deathcore outfit and hardened into something darker and more purely black metal with each passing year, their southern gothic roots informing a sound that's been evolving since 2013.

Venomous Black Metal out of Texas.

Savage Black Metal / Punk from Dallas.

Fully independent one-man atmospheric black metal project. Debut album 'Druid' was partially lost to a catastrophic hardware failure and had to be rebuilt from scratch.