IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT‘s return from hibernation is capped by the official release of new album, “Ancient Glacial Resurgence“, unto the world. The USBM astral travelers walk their own grim and frostbitten path across 10 potent compositions which combine Black Metal, Death Metal and pure unhinged savagery.
19 long years after crushing debut, “Apocalyptic End In White“, I.C.E. are back, full force and stronger than ever. Listen to the album on the label’s YouTube channel and Bandcamp:
The metal press have celebrated the return of I.C.E.:
“One can feel the passion and heart blood in this release. If you heard it once, you immediately press replay!” (Legacy)
“Each revisit reveals a new little nugget of frozen goodness that I missed last time. […] There are no bad songs, and all ten offer something cool and engaging to latch onto.” (Angry Metal Guy)
“Pick Of The Week: This is a record and band that show no mercy, and once you’re in their clutches, your cries for mercy will go unheeded as you’re taken apart and submerged in ice piece by piece.” (Meat Mead Metal)
“There’s no better way to describe this album than the isolated vocals that kick it off: WE ARE STILL…. FU-CKING ICE!” (Invisible Oranges)
“Ancient Glacial Resurgence” is available on CD, vinyl, tape & digital, accompanied by merchandise. Orders are possible via the label’s EU, US and Bandcamp stores.
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!
