Shadow Of Intent Release Most Expansive And Uncompromising Album Yet Imperium Delirium

Shadow Of Intent

Release Most Expansive And Uncompromising Album Yet

Imperium Delirium

Drop New Lyric Video For Title Track

Watch HERE | Listen To The Album HERE

“In reality, this is far beyond deathcore. “Imperium Delirium” is what happens when great bands do it themselves, get everything right, obliterate the competition, and then march on to what we can only presume will be worldwide glory. Does it get much better than this? No, it does not. Strap yourselves in.” – 9/10 Blabbermouth

Photo Credit Chris Klumpp

Friday, June 27, 2025 — Imperium Delirium has arrived. The highly anticipated new album from Shadow of Intent is out now via Blood Blast Distribution, marking a career-defining moment for one of metal’s most forward-moving and fiercely independent forces. The band have also shared a lyric video for the album’s crushing title track—watch it HERE and stream or order the full record HERE.

Written and produced by guitarist Chris Wiseman with lyrics written by vocalist Ben Duerr, Imperium Delirium is as sonically unrelenting as it is thematically urgent—exploring the machinery of modern power through psychological horror, political decay, and a sound built on symphonic grandeur and technical brutality. Across eleven tracks, Shadow of Intent take aim at imperialism, drone warfare, mass surveillance, and the cold systems that dehumanize us all. The themes are grounded in reality, made visceral through punishing breakdowns, blackened textures, and surgical precision.

Speaking on today’s album release, Chris Wiseman shares

 

“After countless writing sessions, abandoned ideas, and many years of patience, we are very proud to bring you Imperium Delirium. We couldn’t be happier to finally turn to this newest chapter of Shadow of Intent.”

WATCH: Lyric Video For “Imperium Delirium”

The album’s previous singles “Flying The Black Flag”, “Feeding The Meatgrinder” feat Corpsegrinder , “Infinity of Horrors” and “Mechanical Chaos” each revealed a different facet of the band’s creative arsenal. Now, with its full release today, Imperium Delirium stands in full: a sharp, searing document of power, corruption and consequence that feels both musically immense and deeply human.

What the press are saying about ‘Imperium Delirium’

“In reality, this is far beyond deathcore. “Imperium Delirium” is what happens when great bands do it themselves, get everything right, obliterate the competition, and then march on to what we can only presume will be worldwide glory. Does it get much better than this? No, it does not. Strap yourselves in.”

Blabbermouth 9/10

“…this record doesn’t simply expand their signature blend of symphonic deathcore and blackened melody—it shatters the mold with industrial textures, cinematic atmospheres, and a scathing indictment of imperial violence. It’s a record born of rage, intelligence, and unrelenting power, and it demands to be experienced in full volume and full focus.”

Jace Media

“Imperium Delirium sees Shadow of Intent reasserting exactly why they are widely considered to be one of the most consistently engaging deathcore bands of the modern age. By foregoing many of the extraneous elements that their contemporaries tend to have, Imperium Delirium is sonic proof that you can still write extremely satisfying and focused deathcore without forcing needless sensory overload.”

Boolin Tunes 9/10

“Connecticut’s own Technical Deathcore/Death Metal band have released quite possibly one of the most refined, atmospheric, and incredibly raw albums of the genre we have seen yet.”

Music Scene Media

“Imperium Delirium cements the band’s name as one of the most important forces in the history of Deathcore worldwide.”

The Headbanging Moose 4/5

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 amassed over 203 million streams, 64 million YouTube Views and have 460,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.

Album Artwork

Shadow of Intent

Imperium Delirium

Track Listing

  1. Prepare To Die
  2. Flying The Black Flag
  3. Infinity of Horrors
  4. Mechanical Chaos
  5. They Murdered Sleep
  6. The Facets of Propaganda
  7. Feeding The Meatgrinder
  8. Vehement Draconian Vengeance
  9. Beholding The Sickness of Civilization
  10. No Matter The Cost
  11. Imperium Delerium

This fall, the band will take Imperium Delirium on the road as part of a stacked North American tour alongside Lorna Shore, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Peeling Flesh. Full dates below.

Shadow Of Intent

Fall Tour Dates

09/17/25 – Pittsburgh, PA

09/18/25 – Louisville, KY

09/20/25 – Worcester, MA

09/21/25 – Baltimore, MD

09/23/25 – Greensboro, NC

09/24/25 – Nashville, TN

09/26/25 – Cleveland, OH

09/27/25 – Detroit, MI

09/28/25 – Chesterfield, MO

09/30/25 – Atlanta, GA

10/01/25 – Tampa, FL

10/03/25 – Houston, TX

10/04/25 – Irving, TX

10/05/25 – Austin, TX

10/06/25 – Oklahoma City, OK

10/09/25 – Phoenix, AZ

10/10/25 – Las Vegas, NV

10/12/25 – Riverside, CA

10/13/25 – San Diego, CA

10/14/25 – Los Angeles, CA

10/15/25 – San Francisco, CA

10/17/25 – Seattle, WA

10/18/25 – Vancouver, BC

10/20/25 – Salt Lake City, UT

10/21/25 – Denver, CO

10/23/25 – Chicago, IL

10/24/25 – Maplewood, MN

10/25/25 – Milwaukee, WI

10/27/25 – Mississauga, ON

10/28/25 – Laval, QC

10/30/25 – New York, NY

ABOUT SHADOW OF INTENT

Formed in 2014 by Ben Duerr and Chris Wiseman, Shadow of Intent have become one of the most respected and forward-thinking bands in modern metal. With four self-released albums—Primordial (2016), Reclaimer (2017), Melancholy (2019), and Elegy (2022)—the band has blended deathcore, black metal, symphonic and progressive elements with narrative and conceptual ambition. The band’s music and subject matter centers on the many evils in the world, whether myth or real-life events, and the future it may lead to.

2022’s Elegy charted at #4 on Billboard’s Top New Artist Albums, #6 Current Hard Music Albums, and #16 on Current Rock and Digital Albums charts. The band has clocked up 203 million streams, 64 million YouTube Views and have 460,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and toured alongside metal heavyweights including Cannibal Corpse, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Lorna Shore, and Cattle Decapitation.

Shadow Of Intent Are
Ben Duerr – Vocals
Chris Wiseman – Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
Bryce Butler – Drums
Andrew Monias – Bass
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