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 its accompanying music video that serves as both harbinger and warning shot for their upcoming studio album, Imperium Delirium, set for release June 27 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.”
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“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.
Formed in 2014 by Ben Duerr and Chris Wiseman, Shadow of Intent has 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 center on the many evils in the world, whether myth or real-life events, and the future it may lead to.
