Two years after returning triumphant with 2023’s “Ancient Glacial Resurgence“, US Black Metal force IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT (I.C.E.) unveil the full stream of their upcoming third opus, in collaboration with Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. “Abominable Astral Summoning” conjures eleven unrelenting, frostbitten hymns in a searing tribute to the Anti-God Råvaskeith.

Listen here:

I.C.E. comment:

“The message of I.C.E. has been brewing and bubbling and infecting its way across the lands of this dying planet. Increasing our strength and power. There are no songs, nothing but the voice of Råvaskeith screaming out. Our inhuman souls are constantly colliding together on the astral level intertwining and inspiring each other and giving way to expressions from within that further the eternal agenda. We do not handle things as normal human men can comprehend. The words are just words that enter your brain but remain festering. In your sleep you will understand and awaken in fear. The end is coming and it’s all too real. Unspeakable and unable to formulate into spoken tongue, this great power is but energy that will crack the sky and open the portal to the vast bleak white endless pain that awaits us all.“

The first single from the new album, ‘Insufferable Shivers‘, offered a rare visual glimpse into the frostbitten universe of I.C.E. via a haunting video. Watch below:

Follow I.C.E. on Facebook and Instagram!

“Abominable Astral Summoning” will be released on CD, vinyl – including an exclusive DMP variant – and digital on July 11th. A special t-shirt design will accompany the launch. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US, and Bandcamp shops.

IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT recently concluded a four-date incursion through Latin America (check out photos here) and are now planning forthcoming live rituals across the United States and Europe. Further details to be unveiled in due course.

Originating in 2003 after the arctic summoning of the ancient astral Anti-God “Råvaskieth”, IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT was manifested through the hypothermic possession of four unwilling dead souls. Their identities died the minute their hearts were ripped from their chests and cast upon the whirling winds of the “Crystalline Blisserred Shrine”.

Driven by the inherent will of timeless hatred to freeze all Worlds and return the Universe and all of its Dimensions to the original bleak, empty void of colourless cold death, “IceSickKill”, “Blisserred”, “Bleak” and “Mammoth” vowed to stop at nothing until this frozen wasteland was achieved.

The now infamous “Apocalyptic End In White” album was conjured in 2004 and released on its unsuspecting victims with extreme violence as the first wave of cryonic encapsulation. After years of spreading pummelling, hopeless extinction upon the earth with the use of their supreme brand of sonic devastation, I.C.E. was called by the instinctual pull of the “Great Orbital Råvaskeith” to return their bodies to a hibernative state, while their energies were displaced onto other distant planets and within four alternate entities, who have been spreading the cold white death further amongst the stars.

20 years have now passed and the repetitive howling shrieks of the “Astral Frost Invocation” from the loyal mortal servants below, have opened the archaic portal and reanimated I.C.E. once more to reign over Earth and begin the second wave of convulsing frigid annihilation.

Awakening within caverns of ice and snow, I.C.E. have returned from the abyss, across the frozen emptiness of space! All shall perish! Your children shall continue to be abducted and skinned under the piercing blizzard winds of the Arctic Aurora, until the vast army of ghastly “Lycanthropic Banshee Hordes” arrive!

After delivering the triumphant 2023 affirmation that they are “…still fucking I.C.E.!” via 20-year-awaited second album “Ancient Glacial Resurgence“, the US Black Metal horde returns with their third revelation – “Abominable Astral Summoning“. I.C.E. now unveils a second new composition to grant both disciples and adversaries of Råvaskieth passage into their impending blizzard-born assault.

Experience ‘Phantoms of Ice‘ – a ruthless and chillingly precise second single – below and all streaming platforms:

The band comments:

“As the reality of starvation and cold sets in, the walls burst open and the slow murder begins. The Phantoms of ICE are ancient monstrous beings that manifest through the archaic frosted veil (the astral frozen portal) that has been conjured and opened by I.C.E. on the command of the Great Råvaskieth, (the ONE who came before all). Much like the Blizzard Banshees, these ghostly demons appear with the wind and the hail. They can pass through all matter and infect and eviscerate all living creatures from within. These phantoms are just one force amongst many legions of old that are conjured to destroy all life and return this universe to its original blinding and empty bleak white state of eternal despair.“

The first single from the new album, ‘Insufferable Shivers‘, offered a rare visual glimpse into the frostbitten universe of I.C.E. via a haunting video. Watch below:

Follow I.C.E. on Facebook and Instagram!

“Abominable Astral Summoning” will be released on CD, vinyl – including an exclusive DMP variant – and digital on July 11th. A special t-shirt design will accompany the launch. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US, and Bandcamp shops.

To spread their grim gospel across the globe, I.C.E. have announced a series of select live appearances in follow-up to their appearance at Maryland Deathfest this May (view photos here).

I.C.E. had this to say on future live performances:

“You will see us in South American, in the United States and in Europe. You will see us in Hell. You will see us all around you. It will start with rain and hail and frost on every landscape. You will see the skies and valleys turn white and the storm clouds gathering. We will be all around you. The ghastly banshee hordes will enter your homes and ravage your families. You will see us in the mirror, you will see us in the lakes, you will see us stand above you as your decapitated heads sink in the snow from the hot steam of your warm blood. Before you die you will know us well!“

Currently confirmed:

06.06.2025 – Mexico City, Mexico [info]
07.-08.06.2025 – Misanthropic Ascension Festival, San Luis Potosí, Mexico [info]

Further gigs will be announced soon!

Originating in 2003 after the arctic summoning of the ancient astral Anti-God “Råvaskieth”, IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT was manifested through the hypothermic possession of four unwilling dead souls. Their identities died the minute their hearts were ripped from their chests and cast upon the whirling winds of the “Crystalline Blisserred Shrine”.

Driven by the inherent will of timeless hatred to freeze all Worlds and return the Universe and all of its Dimensions to the original bleak, empty void of colourless cold death, “IceSickKill”, “Blisserred”, “Bleak” and “Mammoth” vowed to stop at nothing until this frozen wasteland was achieved.

The now infamous “Apocalyptic End In White” album was conjured in 2004 and released on its unsuspecting victims with extreme violence as the first wave of cryonic encapsulation. After years of spreading pummelling, hopeless extinction upon the earth with the use of their supreme brand of sonic devastation, I.C.E. was called by the instinctual pull of the “Great Orbital Råvaskeith” to return their bodies to a hibernative state, while their energies were displaced onto other distant planets and within four alternate entities, who have been spreading the cold white death further amongst the stars.

20 years have now passed and the repetitive howling shrieks of the “Astral Frost Invocation” from the loyal mortal servants below, have opened the archaic portal and reanimated I.C.E. once more to reign over Earth and begin the second wave of convulsing frigid annihilation.

Awakening within caverns of ice and snow, I.C.E. have returned from the abyss, across the frozen emptiness of space! All shall perish! Your children shall continue to be abducted and skinned under the piercing blizzard winds of the Arctic Aurora, until the vast army of ghastly “Lycanthropic Banshee Hordes” arrive!

In 2023 IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT emerged from their 20-year hibernation with sophomore masterwork, “Ancient Glacial Resurgence“, and a series of carefully chosen, frost-bitten live performances. Now the inimitable battalion strikes immediately again with another shattering full-length of mystical Black Metal savagery.

New album “Abominable Astral Summoning“, the third revelation from I.C.E., is the latest apocalyptic statement from a legion once seemingly cryogenically frozen in time – advancing their legacy in a hostile whirlwind of compulsive new paeans to the ancient anti-God Råvaskieth.

Tracklist:

01. A Call To Worship
02. Insufferable Shivers
03. Phantoms Of Ice
04. Frigid Spirits Arcane
05. White Behemoths of Woe
06. Avalanche Apocalypse
07. Esoteric Offerings
08. The Cold Cosmic Veil
09. Cryogenic Death
10. From The Arctic Void
11. Clandestine Cavern Sacrifice

All music was recorded, mixed and mastered by Ron Vento at Nightsky Recording Studios. Cover artwork is courtesy of Mike Hrubovcak (AZURE EMOTE, HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY), and the layout was crafted by Yurii Kazarian / Into The Abyss Design.

I.C.E. had this to say about their forthcoming assault:

“Relentless is the attack from the wrath of Ravaskieth! We are continual as the ever-flowing sands of time. There is no way to prepare for the coming death. The earth will freeze and crumble to the never ending cold and bleak emptiness that will consume all life. The legion of I.C.E. has now evolved into a bigger and stronger blizzard storm force with the addition of Avalanche (guitars) – the mover of the glacial mountains! You will all suffocate under the heavy weight of bright white snow, returning the earth to its original frozen arctic state!“

To prepare listeners for the onslaught, IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT present a video for first single: ‘Insufferable Shivers‘!

True to I.C.E.‘s inimitable signature style, the track is a relentless and addictive maelstrom of frostbitten riffs and blizzard tempos, with the chilling video a perfect visual manifestation. The band expands:

“This footage is but a small glimpse into the astral arctic rituals that are performed by I.C.E. in places that shall remain unspoken. All those who dared travel to these crystalline caverns did not make it back alive save one. One remained to spread the fear and warning to all others that obliteration is near. The arctic storm is coming for you all!“

Follow I.C.E. on Facebook and Instagram!

“Abominable Astral Summoning” will be released on CD, vinyl – including an exclusive DMP variant – and digital on July 11th. A special t-shirt design will accompany the launch. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US, and Bandcamp shops.

Originating in 2003 after the arctic summoning of the ancient astral Anti-God “Råvaskieth”, IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT was manifested through the hypothermic possession of four unwilling dead souls. Their identities died the minute their hearts were ripped from their chests and cast upon the whirling winds of the “Crystalline Blisserred Shrine”.

Driven by the inherent will of timeless hatred to freeze all Worlds and return the Universe and all of its Dimensions to the original bleak, empty void of colourless cold death, “IceSickKill”, “Blisserred”, “Bleak” and “Mammoth” vowed to stop at nothing until this frozen wasteland was achieved.

The now infamous “Apocalyptic End In White” album was conjured in 2004 and released on its unsuspecting victims with extreme violence as the first wave of cryonic encapsulation. After years of spreading pummelling, hopeless extinction upon the earth with the use of their supreme brand of sonic devastation, I.C.E. was called by the instinctual pull of the “Great Orbital Råvaskeith” to return their bodies to a hibernative state, while their energies were displaced onto other distant planets and within four alternate entities, who have been spreading the cold white death further amongst the stars.

20 years have now passed and the repetitive howling shrieks of the “Astral Frost Invocation” from the loyal mortal servants below, have opened the archaic portal and reanimated I.C.E. once more to reign over Earth and begin the second wave of convulsing frigid annihilation.

Awakening within caverns of ice and snow, I.C.E. have returned from the abyss, across the frozen emptiness of space! All shall perish! Your children shall continue to be abducted and skinned under the piercing blizzard winds of the Arctic Aurora, until the vast army of ghastly “Lycanthropic Banshee Hordes” arrive!

US Black Metal band IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT, aka I.C.E., unveil a second track from forthcoming album, “Ancient Glacial Resurgence“, to obliterate the grip of summer sun on the planet. The aggressive, catchy and unhinged ‘Of Blizzards And Banshees‘ is premiered in collaboration with Decibel magazine. Listen here:

Mixing Black Metal savagery and majesty in equal parts, ‘Of Blizzards And Banshees‘ contains crushing blasts, ferocious riffing and infernal screams in a tribute to the ancient astral Anti-God Råvaskieth.

IceSickKill narrates:

“We do not plan or control, nor make conscious efforts on spoken tongue or ideas. The only influence is subconscious. It all flows from us at the same time. It is all done in the moment, spontaneously. When we gather our conscious minds disappear and the spirits to which we were called, possess our astral fluid and thus controlling our moves and upheaving the ancient hatred through the tools of our corporeal extensions. This is a very rapturous experience, as it is when we gather for our invoking rituals. If this music sounds inhuman to you, then you are correct. Just by playing the album in your speakers, you are opening the eyes of the great beyond to peer right into you. These songs all come from a collective, and the lyrics spill forth as warnings from Råvaskeith. Our inhuman souls are constantly colliding together on the astral level, intertwining and inspiring each other. These songs come forth naturally as a combined unity of power and conviction. No one person creates, we all just flow. We do not handle things as normal men can comprehend.

The banshees are real, and through time I.C.E. will reveal. The banshees are the empty void of screaming pain that rides across the wind. When the blizzard winds howl, you will hear and know that they are coming, intruding through every available entrance. Some attack in physical forms with vicious primal violence, others infect your lungs and slowly make you turn on each other or eat your family once you go starving. They are but the words and whispers of the great Råvaskeith, as he tumbles and dreams the passion of uncreation on man. Return to the void before voids. Before black empty space there was a white void of nothingness, there was an endless, bleak abyss of blinding white. The banshees are the keyholes to the kingdom, and we are the keys, and the foreboding of the END.“

Find all info about the album here.

“Ancient Glacial Resurgence” will be released via Debemur Morti Productions on CD, vinyl, tape & digital, accompanied by merchandise, on September 1st. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US and Bandcamp shops.

Originating in 2003 after the arctic summoning of the ancient astral Anti-God “Råvaskieth”, IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT was manifested through the hypothermic possession of four unwilling dead souls. Their identities died the minute their hearts were ripped from their chests and cast upon the whirling winds of the “Crystalline Blisserred Shrine”.

Driven by the inherent will of timeless hatred to freeze all Worlds and return the Universe and all of its Dimensions to the original bleak, empty void of colourless cold death, “IceSickKill”, “Blisserred”, “Bleak” and “Mammoth” vowed to stop at nothing until this frozen wasteland was achieved.

The now infamous “Apocalyptic End In White” album was conjured in 2004 and released on its unsuspecting victims with extreme violence as the first wave of cryonic encapsulation. After years of spreading pummelling, hopeless extinction upon the earth with the use of their supreme brand of sonic devastation, I.C.E. was called by the instinctual pull of the “Great Orbital Råvaskeith” to return their bodies to a hibernative state, while their energies were displaced onto other distant planets and within four alternate entities, who have been spreading the cold white death further amongst the stars.

20 years have now passed and the repetitive howling shrieks of the “Astral Frost Invocation” from the loyal mortal servants below, have opened the archaic portal and reanimated I.C.E. once more to reign over Earth and begin the second wave of convulsing frigid annihilation.

Awakening within caverns of ice and snow, I.C.E. have returned from the abyss, across the frozen emptiness of space! All shall perish! Your children shall continue to be abducted and skinned under the piercing blizzard winds of the Arctic Aurora, until the vast army of ghastly “Lycanthropic Banshee Hordes” arrive!

19 years after their last sonic onslaught “Apocalyptic End In White“, US Black Metal band IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT, aka I.C.E., have awakened from self-imposed hibernation to return with a new work of frostbitten Art. A subzero blast of addictive and fucking unhinged savagery, “Ancient Glacial Resurgence” uses a maxed-out barrage of blistering riffage, biting first wave BM songcraft, harsh second wave coldness and the drive of thrashy full-throttle Death Metal to channel the ancient astral Anti-God Råvaskieth.

Tracklist:

01. Into A Frigid Bleak Infinity
02. Eternal Subzero Torment
03. Cataclysmic Glaciation
04. Of Blizzards And Banshees
05. Ravaskeith’s Crystalline Return
06. Petrified Cadaverous Wastelands
07. Savage Blizzard Stabbings
08. Opening The Imperial Gates
09. Ancient Lords Of White Death
10. Born To Freeze

“Ancient Glacial Resurgence” was mixed and mastered at Nightsky Recording studios. Mike Hrubovcak (AURORA BOREALIS, PATHOLOGY, SINISTER) designed the cover artwork.

Vocalist IceSickKill describes the collective’s forthcoming album:

“After years of spreading the message of hopeless frozen extinction upon the earth we felt the instinctual call of the Great Orbital Råvaskeith to return our physical bodies to a hibernative state in our hidden arctic cavern, while our energies were displaced onto other distant planets and within four alternate entities. The last years were not spent hibernating in action or essence, but rather continually spreading the cold white death further amongst the stars in our alternate forms on other distant dominions.

The repetitive howling shrieks of the ‘Astral Frost Invocation‘ from the loyal mortal servants below, has opened the archaic portal and reanimated I.C.E. once more to reign over Earth, so that we may begin the second wave of convulsing frigid annihilation. We have been revived and have arisen once more. Nothing has changed, as the excruciating pain of the clench of the ONE is unchanging and constant. I.C.E. is an ever-present essence in all subconscious hate and ever reoccurring in the cold bleak death of reality.

There is no disconnect from one or the other. All are bonded beyond the mountains, beyond space, and beyond all comprehension. These sonic vibrations were created under the rapturous pain of hypothermic possession while being infected with the spirits of those who channeled us. We cannot explain the connection of these two powers, because while we are under such possessions and drive, we are lost amongst the beautiful anguish of subhuman hatred and disgust for this rebellious explosive nebulae called life, and I.C.E. shall be its END.“

IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT now present ‘Into A Frigid Bleak Infinity‘ – the opening track of “Ancient Glacial Resurgence” – as a first sign of the coming white death storm: grim and frostbitten riffs, blasting beats and ferocious screams are enveloped in harsh, yet powerful production. Listen here:

IceSickKill comments:

“It is the first spell of the second wave of attack of extreme cold, which is meant to blanket the feeble creatures and paralyzed souls of man in unending torment. It was not written but invoked though the dead fingers of our corporeal bodies, manifested by the ONE, however there is not one special creation, not one special creature, all is worthless in the eyes of the great bleak infinity. Powerless and frigid, humanity shall be overcome with the ever-flowing energy of the great Råvaskeith, who came before all, and who will END all. A return to cold by the IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT!“

“Ancient Glacial Resurgence” will be released via Debemur Morti Productions on CD, vinyl, tape & digital, accompanied by merchandise, on September 1st. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US and Bandcamp shops. The exclusive DMP vinyl edition will solely be purchasable from DMP.

Originating in 2003 after the arctic summoning of the ancient astral Anti-God “Råvaskieth”, IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT was manifested through the hypothermic possession of four unwilling dead souls. Their identities died the minute their hearts were ripped from their chests and cast upon the whirling winds of the “Crystalline Blisserred Shrine”.

Driven by the inherent will of timeless hatred to freeze all Worlds and return the Universe and all of its Dimensions to the original bleak, empty void of colourless cold death, “IceSickKill”, “Blisserred”, “Bleak” and “Mammoth” vowed to stop at nothing until this frozen wasteland was achieved.

The now infamous “Apocalyptic End In White” album was conjured in 2004 and released on its unsuspecting victims with extreme violence as the first wave of cryonic encapsulation. After years of spreading pummelling, hopeless extinction upon the earth with the use of their supreme brand of sonic devastation, I.C.E. was called by the instinctual pull of the “Great Orbital Råvaskeith” to return their bodies to a hibernative state, while their energies were displaced onto other distant planets and within four alternate entities, who have been spreading the cold white death further amongst the stars.

20 years have now passed and the repetitive howling shrieks of the “Astral Frost Invocation” from the loyal mortal servants below, have opened the archaic portal and reanimated I.C.E. once more to reign over Earth and begin the second wave of convulsing frigid annihilation.

Awakening within caverns of ice and snow, I.C.E. have returned from the abyss, across the frozen emptiness of space! All shall perish! Your children shall continue to be abducted and skinned under the piercing blizzard winds of the Arctic Aurora, until the vast army of ghastly “Lycanthropic Banshee Hordes” arrive!