Imperial Triumphant embody the grit and grandeur of their home, New York City. They take inspiration from the metropolis in everything they do – from its Art Deco skyscrapers that inform their artwork and masks, to their mind-bending music that looks back to the golden age of jazz and melds it with avant-garde and extreme metal. In doing this they’ve created a genuinely groundbreaking sound that perfectly soundtracks this terrifying era we find ourselves in: a new Roaring 20s, that are more catastrophic than glorious. The band’s new album Alphaville is a “retro-futuristic record” of dystopia and fallen empires: it’s almost as if they predicted the pandemic. “If you listen to our music, it does seem like we knew it was coming,” says the band’s founder and singer/guitarist Zachary Ilya ...
