Metal Avant Garde is not something that anyone can do right or get close to it, but the New York group Imperial Triumphant is one of the few groups that special taste and temperament has always attracted the eyes and ears of metal lovers, and this example It has been around since the Abyssal Gods and Vile Luxury albums over the past two decades and has shown that it can be inspired by many different genres such as Jazz, Black Metal and Death Metal without being fake or pretentious.
In Alphaville, inspired by Jean Luc Godard's groundbreaking, innovative and sci-fi film of the same name, the group takes all the previous features and raises their purity to create a dystopian world for the listener.
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As the album cover shows, this purity comes from the higher quality of the music and the stronger sour techniques, and also keep in mind that they are still committed to being an avant garde. like the use of African folk music and drums in City Swine, the strange background sounds of the Atomic Age, the jazz music of Transmission To Mercury, or alien sounds made of trumpets and choirs with jumps and violence. Different in the way you sing throughout the album, which always amazes you during an hour of heavy, roaring, mutant, hallucinatory and sci-fi music without losing its fiery and psychotic aspect.
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The opening song is all a unique start to the album, with its heavy and long guitars trapping you in a whirlpool that gets rougher by the minute, and the choir's songs seem to be the voices of ghosts trapped in this whirlpool. That makes your hair stand on end. in Excelsior, it shows one of the best combinations of Jazz and Black Metal, with which all aspects of industrial music are delicately mixed. the single "Atomic Age" is a wave of melodies and sounds of musical transmissions that are beautifully conveyed to the listener without turning into complete chaos and turn the music into a hot and inflamed hell that seems to be full of sectarian and colorful songs has been transformed and the percussion drums along with the fiery guitars shake this hell. in the second half of this single, however, the music turns into a huge and theatrical chaos, which comes from more stressful guitars and drums, but the use of very Vaporwave and sci-fi classes.
The only problem with the album is that some of the singles, such as City Swine, are a little too quiet and seem to be the band's musical skeleton without any flesh on it. the final two singles also seem shy and repetitive in contrast to the rest, although they have experimental and psychotic aspects that are somewhat ridiculous and incoherent.
Anyway, "Alphaville" album was a step forward for Imperial Triumphant. a violent, cohesive, dense and avant garde work with anti capitalist messages that do not stop for a moment from their steely attacks to shake metal music from the core.