Tag Archives: Avant-Garde Metal

Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville (Review)

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Imperial Triumphant - AlphavilleThis is the fourth album from US avant-garde black/death metal band Imperial Triumphant.

Referring to Imperial Triumphant as a black/death metal band, (as I’ve just done here for sake of brevity), is highly misleading really, as this is one of the more individual and unique bands in existence. They play an avant-garde, experimental mix of styles that includes, (but is not limited to), black metal, death metal, progressive metal, doom, jazz, and post-everything. Continue reading →

Shodan – Protocol of Dying (Review)

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ShodanThis is the début album by Shodan, a death metal band from Poland.

Shodan play modern death metal for the most part, but also incorporate a myriad of other influences and ideas into this atypical release.

The interesting thing about this band is how they develop their style for each song; it all revolves around a modern core of solid death metal, but each track uses this in its own way and incorporates different elements from Continue reading →