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Divine (2024)
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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.
Houston's Imp Tea brews stoner and doom metal into a slow, hazy concoction that reflects the city's humid lethargy — heavy enough to crush, loose enough to feel lived-in.
Oakland's Impaled have spent nearly two decades sharpening a death metal and grindcore sound with surgical humor and genuine brutality — one of the Bay Area's most reliably visceral underground acts.
Tennessee's Impaled Divinity arrived in 2023 playing slam and brutal death metal in one of the genre's least expected zip codes — grotesque, low-tuned, and mercilessly heavy.
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.
Crawling out of La Puente since 2020, Impalement drag death metal into suffocating doom territory, piling on rot and weight in equal measure. Their sound sits somewhere between a funeral procession and a cave-in.
Saint Paul's Impaler have been sharpening their blades since 2014, channeling the raw voltage of speed metal through the no-nonsense attitude of classic heavy metal. Think leather and lightning in the upper Midwest.
Austin hardcore punk. Raging fast punk with a metallic edge.
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.
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