In 2023 IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT emerged from their 20-year hibernation with sophomore masterwork, “Ancient Glacial Resurgence“, and a series of carefully chosen, frost-bitten live performances. Now the inimitable battalion strikes immediately again with another shattering full-length of mystical Black Metal savagery.
New album “Abominable Astral Summoning“, the third revelation from I.C.E., is the latest apocalyptic statement from a legion once seemingly cryogenically frozen in time – advancing their legacy in a hostile whirlwind of compulsive new paeans to the ancient anti-God Råvaskieth.
Tracklist:
01. A Call To Worship
02. Insufferable Shivers
03. Phantoms Of Ice
04. Frigid Spirits Arcane
05. White Behemoths of Woe
06. Avalanche Apocalypse
07. Esoteric Offerings
08. The Cold Cosmic Veil
09. Cryogenic Death
10. From The Arctic Void
11. Clandestine Cavern Sacrifice
All music was recorded, mixed and mastered by Ron Vento at Nightsky Recording Studios. Cover artwork is courtesy of Mike Hrubovcak (AZURE EMOTE, HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY), and the layout was crafted by Yurii Kazarian / Into The Abyss Design.
I.C.E. had this to say about their forthcoming assault:
“Relentless is the attack from the wrath of Ravaskieth! We are continual as the ever-flowing sands of time. There is no way to prepare for the coming death. The earth will freeze and crumble to the never ending cold and bleak emptiness that will consume all life. The legion of I.C.E. has now evolved into a bigger and stronger blizzard storm force with the addition of Avalanche (guitars) – the mover of the glacial mountains! You will all suffocate under the heavy weight of bright white snow, returning the earth to its original frozen arctic state!“
To prepare listeners for the onslaught, IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT present a video for first single: ‘Insufferable Shivers‘!
True to I.C.E.‘s inimitable signature style, the track is a relentless and addictive maelstrom of frostbitten riffs and blizzard tempos, with the chilling video a perfect visual manifestation. The band expands:
“This footage is but a small glimpse into the astral arctic rituals that are performed by I.C.E. in places that shall remain unspoken. All those who dared travel to these crystalline caverns did not make it back alive save one. One remained to spread the fear and warning to all others that obliteration is near. The arctic storm is coming for you all!“
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“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.
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!