The Impure is a one-man prog metal project by Robert Hibbs, based in North Carolina. Inspired by Opeth, Mastodon, Nevermore, Gojira, Between the Buried and Me, Death, Devin Townsend, Meshuggah, Tesseract, System of a Down, Tool, Immortal, Infected Mushroom, Pendulum, Dir En Grey, and many others