Two years after returning triumphant with 2023’s “Ancient Glacial Resurgence“, US Black Metal force IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT unveil the full stream of their upcoming third opus, in collaboration with Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. “Abominable Astral Summoning” conjures eleven unrelenting, frostbitten hymns in a searing tribute to the Anti-God Råvaskeith.
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I.C.E. comment:
“The message of I.C.E. has been brewing and bubbling and infecting its way across the lands of this dying planet. Increasing our strength and power. There are no songs, nothing but the voice of Råvaskeith screaming out. Our inhuman souls are constantly colliding together on the astral level intertwining and inspiring each other and giving way to expressions from within that further the eternal agenda. We do not handle things as normal human men can comprehend. The words are just words that enter your brain but remain festering. In your sleep you will understand and awaken in fear. The end is coming and it’s all too real. Unspeakable and unable to formulate into spoken tongue, this great power is but energy that will crack the sky and open the portal to the vast bleak white endless pain that awaits us all.“
The first single from the new album, ‘Insufferable Shivers‘, offered a rare visual glimpse into the frostbitten universe of I.C.E. via a haunting video. Watch below:
“Abominable Astral Summoning” will be released on CD, vinyl – including an exclusive DMP variant – and digital on July 11th. A special t-shirt design will accompany the launch. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US, and Bandcamp shops.
IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT recently concluded a four-date incursion through Latin America (check out photos here) and are now planning forthcoming live rituals across the United States and Europe. Further details to be unveiled in due course.
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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