IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT Shrine To The Trident Throne LP

IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT Shrine To The Trident Throne LP

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(Code666)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    Now available on both vinyl (limited to three hundred copies) and digipack CD.
    This New York black metal band has been around for a couple of years, but this collection of early EP material is their first release to get wider attention. It's a sonically striking collection from Imperial Triumphant, whose complex clashing riffery and confusional songwriting clearly points towards both the evil dissonance of French black metal outfits like Deathspell Omega, Aosoth and Blut Aus Nord, as well as the avant-garde orchestral music of Krzysztof Penderecki. Penderecki's stuff in particular is cited by the band as a key influences on their powerful combination of complex black metal and baroque, swoonsome melodies, which tends to make me take notice; wasn't that surprised when I realized that this stuff featured drumming from Alex Cohen, who has also played with tech-grinders Pyrrhon and our own proggy blackened metal outfit Epistasis, and there's a few other guest appearances, including one from drummer Kenny Grohowski of Secret Chiefs 3 on the track "Sodom". This stuff ended up being really goddamn impressive, definitely building anticipation over here for their new album that's coming out.
    Comprised of the band's Abominamentvm album and Goliath EP that were originally only available as digital releases from the band, the disc moves through the band's most recent material leading up to their new album forthcoming from Code666, a dizzying array of hyper-technical math-metal acrobatics and nimble rhythmic complexity, fused with sweeping black melodies draped in discordant forms and waves of eerie vibrato. Ever since Deathspell Omega achieved a certain amount of popularity in extreme metal circles, their sound has been mimicked by legions of leatherclad mockingbirds, but Imperial Triumphant are much more interesting than just another Deathspell-clone. To begin with, their musicianship is pretty impressive, with textural guitarwork and expressive bass playing that is above most of what you hear in American black metal, and the band heavily incorporates convoluted math rock riffs and flourishes of jazzy prog into these songs that diverge from their influences; there are even parts where it sounds like a squall of free-jazz horns is blasting across the band's crushing doom-laden heaviness. You also get a really heavy Gorgutsian vibe to their sound, but it never totally tips over into pure atonal horror, although you do get some guest guitar shred from Gorguts / Krallice member Colin Marston; there are also subtle nods to some of the more jazz-influenced death and thrash metal outfits. Beyond the twisted, atonal riffs, jarring time signatures and rhythmic chaos, though, Imperial Triumphant are some ferociously heavy stuff, capable of balancing their more abrasive qualities with chilling instrumental pieces scattered throughout the disc that offer some superbly desolate modern classical interludes and flystruck industrial ambience, like the swirling, almost Lynchian piano-strafed darkness of "Credo in Nihil" and the queasy nightmarishness of "Scaphism". An intense, commanding collection of avant garde black metal from this formidable new outfit, whom I can't wait to hear more from.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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