Thursday, April 10th, 2025 – Shadow of Intent have returned—and they’ve brought war with them. The New England metal titans today release “Feeding the Meatgrinder”, a merciless new single and it’s accompanying music video, that serves as both harbinger and warning shot for their upcoming studio album, ‘Imperium Delirium’, set for release June 27 via Blood Blast Distribution. Pre-save the album HERE.
Featuring a guest vocal from death metal legend Corpsegrinder (Cannibal Corpse), “Feeding the Meatgrinder” is an unrelenting descent into sonic carnage. Lyrically, it paints a brutal anti-imperialist and anti-war narrative, describing the dehumanization and destruction of mass conflict in harrowing detail—its chorus a nihilistic refrain: “Continue to bleed or feed—you’re feeding the meatgrinder.” Find the new track on streaming platforms HERE and watch the official music video HERE or by clicking the thumbnail below.
“We couldn’t be more excited to kick off album 5 with this brand new track where we get to push our boundaries even further A massive thank you to the great George Fisher aka Corpsegrinder for lending us his voice.”
Lyrically and thematically, Imperium Delirium continues Shadow of Intent’s descent into the real-world horrors that define our past and foreshadow our future. From mythic allegory to modern bloodshed, the band’s subject matter confronts the sickness of empires, the seduction of violence, and the machinery of death that fuels it all. As always, the sound is enormous—melding symphonic grandeur, blackened melody, razor-sharp technicality, and punishing breakdowns into a style that remains utterly their own.
Since their formation in 2014, SHADOW OF INTENT have garnered a reputation for crafting mind-blowingly technical, prog tinged symphonic deathcore. Widely acknowledged as one of the forerunners of the current deathcore renaissance, the band’s debut album ‘Primordial‘ was named as one of Revolver Magazine‘s ‘15 Essential Deathcore Albums‘, with Metal Sucks giving their 2019 album ‘Melancholy‘ a perfect 5/5 review, stating “you can expect Shadow of Intent to send echoes across metal for as long as they feel like making music”. To date, they have clocked up 200 million streams, 62 million YouTube Views andhave 340,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Shadow of Intent
Imperium Delirium
Track Listing
- Prepare To Die
- Flying The Black Flag
- Infinity of Horrors
- Mechanical Chaos
- They Murdered Sleep
- The Facets of Propaganda
- Feeding The Meatgrinder
- Vehement Draconian Vengeance
- Beholding The Sickness of Civilization
- No Matter The Cost
- Imperium Delerium
Shadow of Intent are currently playing the last few dates of their North America with Chelsea Grin, Signs Of The Swarm, and Disembodied Tyrant. Remaining dates below, tickets available from shadowofintent.com
Remaining dates:
04/11 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
04/12 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
04/13 Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl
04/15 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
04/16 Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
04/18 Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater
04/19 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
ABOUT SHADOW OF INTENT
Shadow of Intent is an American metal band based in New England originally formed by Ben Duerr and Chris Wiseman in 2014. The band has released four albums independently since inception, including Primordial (2016), Reclaimer (2017), Melancholy (2019) and most recently their latest work Elegy (2022), which charted on Billboard at #4 Top New Artist Albums, #6 Current Hard Music Albums, and #16 on Current Rock Albums and Current Digital Albums.
The band name and lyrics were originally derived from lore from the Halo franchise and since then the band’s subject matter has become more dark and personal, focusing on the many evils in the world, whether myth or real-life events. Different genres of metal including death metal, black metal, symphonic metal, progressive metal, and metalcore are blended masterfully to create the unique sound that is Shadow of Intent. Since their first live show at the end of 2017, Shadow of Intent have embarked on several US tours with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Carnifex, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Born of Osiris, Despised Icon, and more. The band’s lineup today consists of Ben Duerr (Vocals), Chris Wiseman (Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards), Bryce Butler (Drums) and Andrew Monias (Bass).
Shadow Of Intent Are
Ben Duerr – Vocals
Chris Wiseman – Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
Bryce Butler – Drums
Andrew Monias – Bass
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