Shadow of Intent Drop Imperium Delirium + 2025 Tour Dates with Lorna Shore
Imperium Delirium has arrived. The highly anticipated new album from Shadow of Intent is out now via Blood Blast Distribution, marking a career-defining moment for one of metal’s most forward-moving and fiercely independent forces. The band have also shared a lyric video for the album’s crushing title track — watch it here and stream or order the full record here. Watch “Feeding The Meatgrinder” below:
Written and produced by guitarist Chris Wiseman, with lyrics written by vocalist Ben Duerr, Imperium Delirium is as sonically unrelenting as it is thematically urgent — exploring the machinery of modern power through psychological horror, political decay, and a sound built on symphonic grandeur and technical brutality. Across eleven tracks, Shadow of Intent take aim at imperialism, drone warfare, mass surveillance, and the cold systems that dehumanize us all. The themes are grounded in reality, made visceral through punishing breakdowns, blackened textures, and surgical precision.
Speaking on the album release, Chris Wiseman shares, “After countless writing sessions, abandoned ideas, and many years of patience, we are very proud to bring you Imperium Delirium. We couldn’t be happier to finally turn to this newest chapter of Shadow of Intent.”
The album’s previous singles “Flying The Black Flag,” “Feeding The Meatgrinder” feat Corpsegrinder, “Infinity of Horrors,” and “Mechanical Chaos” each revealed a different facet of the band’s creative arsenal. Now, with its full release today, Imperium Delirium stands in full: a sharp, searing document of power, corruption, and consequence that feels both musically immense and deeply human.
Imperium Delirium 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
This fall, the band will take Imperium Delirium on the road as part of a stacked North American tour alongside Lorna Shore, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Peeling Flesh. Full dates below.
Shadow Of Intent 2025 Fall Tour Dates w/Lorna Shore, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Peeling Flesh:
9/17/25: Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
9/18/25: Louisville, KY @ TBD
9/20/25: Worcester, MA @ The Palladium NEMHCF
9/21/25: Baltimore, MD @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor
9/23/25: Greensboro, NC @ First Horizon Coliseum
9/24/25: Nashville, TN @ The Pinnacle
9/26/25: Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
9/27/25: Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre
9/28/25: Chesterfield, MO @ The Factory
9/30/25: Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre
10/1/25: Tampa, FL @ The Yuengling Center
10/3/25: Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
10/4/25: Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
10/5/25: Cedar Park, TX @ HEB Center at Cedar Park
10/6/25: Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion
10/9/25: Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
10/10/25: Las Vegas, NV @ Pearl Concert Theater At Palms Casino Resort
10/12/25: Riverside, CA @ Riverside Municipal Auditorium
10/13/25: San Diego, CA @ Soma
10/14/25: Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
10/15/25: San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
10/17/25: Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
10/18/25: Vancouver, BC @UBC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
10/20/25: Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center
10/21/25: Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
10/23/25: Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed Outdoors
10/24/25: Maplewood, MN @ Myth Live
10/25/25: Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
10/27/25: Mississauga, ON @ Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto in Etobicoke
10/28/25: Laval, QC @ Place Bell
10/30/25: New York, NY @ The Theater at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan
About Shadow of Intent:
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 203 million streams, 64 million YouTube Views, and have 460,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, and toured alongside metal heavyweights including Cannibal Corpse, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Lorna Shore, and Cattle Decapitation.
