With just weeks to go before the release of their most ambitious album yet, Shadow of Intent drop “Mechanical Chaos,” the fourth single from upcoming new album Imperium Delirium, out June 27 via Blood Blast Distribution. Watch the official music video below and pre-order the album or stream the new track here.
Driven by an unrelenting barrage of dissonant riffing, symphonic unease, and unflinching lyrical focus, “Mechanical Chaos” is the band at their most sonically and ideologically severe. Vocalist Ben Duerr offers the following statement:
“Mechanical Chaos was written to confront the cold, dehumanized reality of modern warfare—one increasingly shaped by the rise of drone technology. As unmanned systems redefine the battlefield, we find ourselves at a crossroads of power, ethics, and consequence. They have become the equalizer of nations. But with this shift comes a new era of destruction—one marked not by strategy, but saturation. The result is a battlefield soaked in attrition, where both sides bleed endlessly and blindly. Mechanical Chaos doesn’t celebrate this evolution—it laments it. It’s a cry against the dehumanization of war, where soldiers are reduced to dots on a screen, and civilians caught in the crossfire become collateral in a game of endurance.
The future hinted at in our music is not distant—it’s already unfolding. This song is for the forgotten, the vaporized, and the haunted—those left beneath the specters above.”
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. The three previously released singles from the album - 2024's "Flying The Black Flag", "Feeding The Meatgrinder" feat Corpsegrinder and "Infinity of Horrors" have clocked up 1.4 million views on Youtube and 4 million streams on Spotify alone.
Since their formation in 2014, Shadow of Intent have garnered a reputation for crafting mind-blowingly technical, prog tinged symphonic deathcore. Widely acknowledged as one of the forerunners of the current deathcore renaissance, the band's debut album 'Primordial' was named as one of Revolver Magazine's '15 Essential Deathcore Albums', with Metal Sucks giving their 2019 album 'Melancholy' a perfect 5/5 review, stating "you can expect Shadow of Intent to send echoes across metal for as long as they feel like making music". To date, they amassed over 203 million streams, 64 million YouTube Views and have 460,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Following the album release, the band will hit the road this fall with Lorna Shore, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Enterprise Earth for one of the year’s most anticipated deathcore tours. Full dates below with tickets available HERE
Shadow Of Intent
Fall Tour Dates
09/17/25 - Pittsburgh, PA
09/18/25 - Louisville, KY
09/20/25 - Worcester, MA
09/21/25 - Baltimore, MD
09/23/25 - Greensboro, NC
09/24/25 - Nashville, TN
09/26/25 - Cleveland, OH
09/27/25 - Detroit, MI
09/28/25 - Chesterfield, MO
09/30/25 - Atlanta, GA
10/01/25 - Tampa, FL
10/03/25 - Houston, TX
10/04/25 - Irving, TX
10/05/25 - Austin, TX
10/06/25 - Oklahoma City, OK
10/09/25 - Phoenix, AZ
10/10/25 - Las Vegas, NV
10/12/25 - Riverside, CA
10/13/25 - San Diego, CA
10/14/25 - Los Angeles, CA
10/15/25 - San Francisco, CA
10/17/25 - Seattle, WA
10/18/25 - Vancouver, BC
10/20/25 - Salt Lake City, UT
10/21/25 - Denver, CO
10/23/25 - Chicago, IL
10/24/25 - Maplewood, MN
10/25/25 - Milwaukee, WI
10/27/25 - Mississauga, ON
10/28/25 - Laval, QC
10/30/25 - New York, NY
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.
Shadow Of Intent Are
Ben Duerr - Vocals
Chris Wiseman - Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
Bryce Butler - Drums
Andrew Monias - Bass
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