Rejoice! Following a triumphant "Ancient Glacial Resurgence" in September 2023, Imperial Crystalline Entombment's infamous 2004 debut "Apocalyptic End in White" is once again available on long out-of-print CD, and for the first time ever on cassette.
Originating in 2003 after the arctic summoning of the ancient astral Anti-God "Råvaskieth", I.C.E. was manifested through the hypothermic possession of four unwilling dead souls - "IceSickKill", "Blisserred", "Bleak" and "Mammoth" - who vowed to stop at nothing until a frozen wasteland was achieved.
"Apocalyptic End in White" is a violent tempest of intense riffing and brutally compulsive songcraft, and a fierce rebuttal to the theory that Black Metal went fallow in the early 2000s. Possessed by the fanatical mysticism of full-bodied Norwegian BM and the power of contemporaneous battering-ram Death Metal, the band plays here as one freezing, breathing organism to produce a cult classic which still feels fresh as the driven snow.
The words of I.C.E.:
"Revived and renewed! Behold the first wave of freezing death is available once more!
The original onslaught of arctic rage is being resurrected and thrown into the current winds of apocalyptic chaos. The hypothermic storm of old – "The Apocalyptic End in White" - is back to provoke madness amongst the masses. Succumb to the frozen power of the Ancient Lords of White Death!"
TRACKLIST:
1. Cryogenic Communion 01:00
2. Astral Frost Invocation 03:32
3. Hypothermic Possession 02:43
4. Onward Banshee Legions 05:12
5. Apocalyptic Blizzard Regime 04:16
6. Upheaving The Ancient Thirst 03:55
7. Cascade Cavern Catharsis 04:00
8. Convulsing Frigid Death 03:28
9. Glacial Lyckanthropic Horde 03:55
10. Behold Thy Frozen Arctic Kingdom 03:45
11. Ravaskeith's Revenge 02:47
