After laboring in the shadows for nearly half a decade, releasing a string of obscure demos and EPs and honing their baroque, highly conceptualized strain of black metal psychosis, New York City's IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT have unveiled their debut full-length. Entitled 'Abominamentvm' and currently available on the band's Bandcamp page, the album's eight tracks were brought into being by Colin Marston at his Menegroth: The Thousand Caves studio. 'Abominamentvm' was officially released on September 5th, 2012, and currently exists solely in digital form (though plans for physical manifestations are forthcoming).

Listen, read, submit: http://imperialtriumphant.bandcamp.com/

The music contained therein is suffocating, disjointed, unsettling - an uneasy marriage of dark ambient, atonal riffing, Deathspell Omega, early Immortal, and drug days Nachtmystium, filtered through a philosophical, nihilistic lens. IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT's ranks include two members of similarly twisted experimental death metal troupe PYRRHON, and feature lyrics inspired not by Satan, but by the evil in man himself, as well as the writings of Rousseau and Nietzsche (as guitarist and vocalist Ilya Ezrin elaborates upon in this interview with The Metal Observer). The same publication gushed, "IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT truly operates within the upper echelons of American Black Metal. As impressive as it’s unsettling, the music of IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT is arguably the grotesque Black Metal equivalent of PORTAL’s Death Metal, and should be considered compulsory listening to all who crave kick-ass forward-thinking Metal," while Pure Grain Audio hailed it as, "A modern futurist work...a monolith to the will of the American nihilist."

IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT are currently preparing for a rare live performance as part of NYC's Precious Metal at the Lit Lounge on October 15th alongside VATTNET VISKAR and SO HIDEOUS. Stay tuned for more updates!

"NYC Black Metal philosophers"... FUCKOUTTAHERE

Automatic fail.

can't wait til the black metal fad passes and garbage like this needs to be actually sought out, not thrust in my face constantly

Sounds pretentious.

band needs to be violenced along with the writers of above reviews and interviewer

The American Nihilist is like, so unique.

what is this the new litrugy?

I'm a black metal philosopher

only black metal anthropologists are real

despite the pretentious ad copy, this is pretty fucking awesome, reminds me kinda of newer abigor, which imho is a good thing

also the cover art is some dude getting crucified on a harley panhead engine? WIN.

This is pretty good stuff. I appreciate the bass tapping and the modern abigor-esque grimey feel.

3 guesses who wrote that garbage copy. (3 fingers, too.)

hahahaha, yea i try not to judge bands on that shit before listening because the band usually has zero input on it.

pretty good stuff actually from NYC...cool they are close.

"nearly half a decade" LOL

its true though, the music is not bad

"Black Metal Philosophaggots", did not read any more.

I was worried when I saw philosophers, NYC and song title "manifesto." But this shit crushes. Deathspell omega, blut aus nord and gorguts hybrid.

"They were done in like 15mins, sounded very raw and at times incohesive/disjointed which is a shame as the tunes I listened to via bandcamp were pretty good." -friend's opinion of their live show

http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/1013...erial-triumphant-live-at-lit-lounge

not so sure about that