With just weeks to go before the release of their most ambitious album yet, Shadow of Intent drop “Mechanical Chaos,” the fourth single from their new album Imperium Delirium, via Blood Blast Distribution.
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 millions of views and streams worldwide.
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. To date, they have amassed over 203 million streams, 64 million YouTube views, and have 460,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Album cover for Shadow of Intent’s Imperium Delirium, featuring a central, monstrous figure with glowing green elements in a dark, eerie landscape filled with skeletal remains and ghastly figures.
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.
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