01/28/2015 21:05

Imperial Triumphant

Imperial Triumphant: 2nd full-length album 'Abyssal Gods' out in March

New York City experimental black metal tacticians, Imperial Triumphant, will release their long-awaited new full-length this March via Italy-based Aural Music's Code666 imprint as a digipak CD.

Titled 'Abyssal Gods', the band's second long player was captured at Solitude Studios in Pennsylvania and Amy Mills Studios (Couch Slut, Epistasis) in New York , mixed and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice, Nader Sadek, Atheist, Origin etc.) at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves in New York and boasts the apocalyptic cover craftings of Andrew Tremblay (Deadbots, Downlow'd, Deathface etc.). Focused on urban decay and the imminent extinction of mankind, Imperial Triumphant's 'Abyssal Gods' serves as the follow-up to the band's critically applauded, 2013-released 'Goliath' EP and contains ten punishingly traumatic odes of strategically composed black-addled mayhem bedecked in angular riff incursions, bestial vocal tirades and an overall air of disease, dread and looming disaster as well as a guest appearance by Bloody Panda's Yoshiko Ohara and more.

Track listing:
1. From Palaces of the Hive
2. Abyssal Gods
3. Dead Heaven
4. Celestial War Rape
5. Opposing Holiness
6. Krokodil
7. Twins
8. Vatican Lust
9. Black Psychedelia
10. Metropolis

In celebration of the record's impending unveiling, today Decibel Magazine heaves forth apocalyptic third movement, 'Dead Heaven'. Elaborates founder/main composer, Ilya Ezrin, "Although we are proud to be born in such a renown place, 'Abyssal Gods' as a whole addresses New York City as a cancer of the world and the absolute fist of the universe. 'Dead Heaven' is the psalm of the end of the world. It deals with the universal deconstruction and celestial collapse. The lyrics were actually inspired by the observatory space lecture scene in Rebel Without A Cause."

Imperial Triumphant personnel:
Ilya Ezrin – guitars/vocals/orchestration
Erik Malave – bass
Kenny Grohowski – drums
Alex Cohen – drums

Additional players:
M. Gorelick – guitar solo
Yoshiko Ohara – female choir
R.K. Halvørson – male choir
Andy Ezrin – piano
Valerie Kuehne – cello
Amy Mills – trumpet