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 27th, 2025, via Blood Blast Distribution.
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”. Watch the official music video 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 and have 340,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Pre-save & pre-order “Imperium Delirium” here.
Tracklist:
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
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 here.
US Tour Dates 2025:
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
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 200 million streams, 62 million YouTube Views and have 340,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and toured alongside metal heavyweights including Cannibal Corpse, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Lorna Shore, and Cattle Decapitation.
Line-up:
Ben Duerr – Vocals
Chris Wiseman – Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
Bryce Butler – Drums
Andrew Monias – Bass
Weblinks:
www.shadowofintent.com
www.facebook.com/ShadowofIntentCT
