IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT - Goldstar (Nine Class 'A' Tunes) Digi-CD

I have to admit, I never got into Imperial Triumphant's dissonant brand of black and death, maybe because their last three albums were almost an hour long and it was more than I could digest, or the masks were too gimmicky, either way, after listening to Goldstar I almost feel bad for having shunned this truly unique and amazing band all of these years. One of the major reasons this was the album that made me like them, I think, is the fact that it’s their most “accessible” album to date. I put accessible in quotes because it is still very much a jazz infused avant garde black death metal album. What makes it accessible is that it is now an efficient 39 minutes and has plenty of little moments where melody peeks out of this dissonant whirlwind of highly controlled and technical chaos.