"“WTF Are Imperial Triumphant?” Kerrang (2020). Well, they’re blackened-prog-thrash-death-jazz-metal; a combo of blast beats, downtown NY brass ensembles, unsettling vocals emanating from gold masks and we even saw them do a cabaret guitar solo with an empty champagne bottle (after pouring it all over the front row). Come get your avant-metal mind handed to you FFO: Voivod, Meshuggah meets Miles Davis, Mr Bungle, Oranssi Pazuzu."

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