Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the signing of New York City’s IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT!
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT stands among the most singular and uncompromising forces in contemporary extreme metal. Over the course of their acclaimed catalog, including Vile Luxury (2018), Alphaville (2020), Spirit Of Ecstasy (2022), and most recently, Goldstar (2025), the band has consistently expanded the boundaries of black metal, death metal, jazz, classical compositions, and experimental music, producing a sound as chaotic, ornate, and unmistakably their own as the city that inspired it.
The band comments, “IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT is pleased to announce a new covenant with the illustrious Metal Blade Records. We consider Metal Blade the top floor of the recording label tower and the view from up here is quite nice. New music is flowing and fans can expect fresh decadence from IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT sooner than later.”
To commence the band and label partnership, a limited-edition shirt featuring the classic Metal Blade Axe mashed up with the band’s trademark mask has been created by artist, Noah Cutter Meihoff.
The shirt can be purchased HERE.
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT recently completed the tracking of their Metal Blade debut. The band is working with longtime collaborator Colin Marston, who is recording and mixing the new offering. With a recording partnership that stretches back to IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT’s earliest days, Marston’s role in documenting the band’s evolution has continued as their music has grown increasingly ambitious. Marston once described the group as having developed their playing and tones to the point where the music itself provides all the “necessary strangeness.”