IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT - Lexington Delirium (feat. Tomas Haake)

What this video is

Released January 16, 2025 as the third single from Imperial Triumphant's sixth album Goldstar (Century Media Records, March 21, 2025), 'Lexington Delirium' crystallizes the band's long-running mythologization of New York City's built environment. The video, filmed atop the Chrysler Building — an Art Deco masterpiece completed in 1930 — positions the band as inheritors of a distinctly American modernist grandeur.…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark in avant-garde extreme metal visual culture: the first documented metal performance filmed atop the Chrysler Building. The video fuses black metal theatricality, jazz-influenced compositional density, and Art Deco visual language into a cohesive aesthetic statement. As a…

The director

New York-based filmmaker and cinematographer. Holds an acting degree from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Transitioned from acting to self-taught filmmaking and cinematography, building his career directing music videos for NYC-area bands…