With a shattering cry – “We are still fucking I.C.E.!” – US Black Metal collective IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT inaugurate forthcoming album “Ancient Glacial Resurgence” and announce their return from 19 year hibernation. Collaborating with Black Metal Promotion YT channel, the long-awaited successor to 2004’s “Apocalyptic End In White” is available to stream in full. Let the anger of the Anti-God Råvaskieth be unleashed – listen here:
Honouring the legends of Norway’s Black Metal second wave while venturing into ferocious Death Metal territory, I.C.E. continue to walk their own grim and frostbitten path as they present 10 songs of addictive and fucking unhinged savagery.
Vocalist IceSickKills narrates:
“We spend all our time and communion yearly traveling back and forth between each of this earth’s frozen poles. Our lives are for one purpose, but when our earthly inclinations and innate desires brought us to gather together for this musical blizzard of hatred and contempt, we only took a short time period out of our travels to spend on this recording process. Random impulse and passion strikes through us from the deep cold and guides our hands and minds to create what comes from within. The process is the same as before, but stronger. Our thoughts were and always are – focused on the blizzard regime. Again, we cannot go into detail about our specific astral invocation communions, for your human minds can simply not grasp these things. But these are the things that must be prepared before being overtaken by the hypothermic possession, so that we may create the power to spill out such a sonic creation. We knew that this album would be massive and pierce through the hearts of the mortals who hear it. If this music sounds inhuman, it’s because it is indeed. Just by blasting this, you are opening the great eye of Råvaskeith to peer right into you.“
“Ancient Glacial Resurgence” will be released on CD, vinyl, tape & digital, accompanied by merchandise, on September 1st. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US and Bandcamp shops.
Originating in 2003 after the arctic summoning of the ancient astral Anti-God “Råvaskieth”, IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT was manifested through the hypothermic possession of four unwilling dead souls. Their identities died the minute their hearts were ripped from their chests and cast upon the whirling winds of the “Crystalline Blisserred Shrine”.
Driven by the inherent will of timeless hatred to freeze all Worlds and return the Universe and all of its Dimensions to the original bleak, empty void of colourless cold death, “IceSickKill”, “Blisserred”, “Bleak” and “Mammoth” vowed to stop at nothing until this frozen wasteland was achieved.
The now infamous “Apocalyptic End In White” album was conjured in 2004 and released on its unsuspecting victims with extreme violence as the first wave of cryonic encapsulation. After years of spreading pummelling, hopeless extinction upon the earth with the use of their supreme brand of sonic devastation, I.C.E. was called by the instinctual pull of the “Great Orbital Råvaskeith” to return their bodies to a hibernative state, while their energies were displaced onto other distant planets and within four alternate entities, who have been spreading the cold white death further amongst the stars.
20 years have now passed and the repetitive howling shrieks of the “Astral Frost Invocation” from the loyal mortal servants below, have opened the archaic portal and reanimated I.C.E. once more to reign over Earth and begin the second wave of convulsing frigid annihilation. Awakening within caverns of ice and snow, I.C.E. have returned from the abyss, across the frozen emptiness of space! All shall perish! Your children shall continue to be abducted and skinned under the piercing blizzard winds of the Arctic Aurora, until the vast army of ghastly “Lycanthropic Banshee Hordes” arrive!
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