Imperial>>KRIEG - USA

Rise Of The Imperial Hordes - 1998 - Blood, Fire, Death
Destruction Ritual - 2001 - Red Stream
The Black House - 2004 - Red Stream
Sono Lo Scherno - 2005 - Battle Kommand
Blue Miasma - 2006 - No Colours
The Isolationist - 2010 - Candlelight
Transient - 2014 - Candlelight
A Small Death: Sessions 2003 - 2017 - Children Of The Night
Ruiner - 2023 - Profound Lore

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Members
Vocals
Devotee, Angelkunt, Solo, The Ravenous, Weltmacht, Twilight, The Royal Arch Blaspheme, N.I.L, Hidden, March Into The Sea, Le Chant Funebre, Lithotome, Poison Blood>>LORD IMPERIAL [NEIL JAMESON]>>Devotee, Angelkunt, Weltmacht, Twilight, The Royal Arch Blaspheme, N.I.L., Hidden, March Into The Sea, Le Chant Funebre, Lithotome, Poison Blood

Guitar
Twilight, Nachtmystium, N.I.L, Le Chant Funebre>>LORD IMPERIAL [NEIL JAMESON]>>Twilight, Nachtmystium, N.I.L, Le Chant Funebre

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History & Biography
The band was founded as a pure play black metal band in the USA in 1997. The act existed as Imperial for three years previously. The group disbanded in 2005, but came back two years later. The reincarnation was more barebones and hardcore.

N. Imperial’s own imprint issued the debut. Its title hinted at the band’s previous incarnation. The band was Lord Soth and Lord Imperial/N. Imperial. The band professed to black metal, but featured synthesizers. Teloc Koraxo was the guest drummer. The act appeared on a compilation CD with Judas Iscariot and others before releasing several demos like Forgotten Secrets. Akhenaten of Judas Iscariot and Imperial were in Weltmacht together. With so little an output the band was nonetheless the subject of a compilation called The Black Plague. The band was part of the North American Black Metal Invasion with Godless North, Inquisition and Secrets Of The Moon in Europe along with three other tours of Europe during this period. Destruction Ritual was on Red Stream. Pat McCahan of Red Stream and Imperial were in Hidden together. N. Imperial was the sole member now. Stool-for-hire Duane Timlin was hired to sit on the stool. Not surprising given how members came and went and Neil himself would be in and out of side-projects. In what would become a pattern, split releases would fill the gap until The Black House. Phaedrus played guitar and played the fiddle, S.M. Daemon was on bass and Thron was on drums. Imperial would claim the album was based on a recurring nightmare of his. Abazagorath, Demoncy and Krieg toured Europe. Sono Lo Scherno came next, but originated from 1998. Some of the material was already heard on the Krieg/Kult Ov Azazel split of 2002. Blue Miasma was issued on the Nazi No Colours label. The band had split up by this time. Either way, it continued the band’s habit of including indifferent cover artwork. Imperial had announced an album called The Harmony Virus as its final release and the end due to having accomplished everything he had wanted to. Imperial jumped on stage to fill in for Kult Ov Azazel’s singer in 2007.

Back in time faster than Ozzy’s twelfth final tour, the band found itself on Candlelight now. The result was The Isolationist in 2010. Joseph Van Fossen was on guitar, Wrest was on bass and synthesiser and Chris Grigg was hired for drums. Nachtmystium, Krieg and Murmur announced a mini-tour in 2012. Multiple split releases took the band to Transient. The group was slotted for the Death To False Metal Festival. A Small Death: Sessions 2003 indicates its age in its title. Ruiner had moved to Profound Lore and was manned by yet another new crew.

Krieg translates into ‘war’ in English from German.


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