Shadow of Intent was formed in 2014 as an internet-based project between vocalist Ben Duerr and instrumentalist Chris Wiseman. The band released their first EP called "Inferi Sententia" on July 18, 2014 and continued writing more music for the album that would be called "Primordial".
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In 2015 the band started releasing more songs and followed up with full length album "Primordial" on January 10, 2016 which rapidly started gaining traction on the internet. Over the next year the album "Reclaimer" was written and the lineup changed gears adding live members to perform in the music videos and eventually live shows.
The second studio album "Reclaimer" was released independently in 2017, and to this day has amassed over ten million streams. The band then announced its debut performance which would sell out the Webster Underground in Hartford, CT. Shortly after, the band started going out on national tours with metal acts such as The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Carnifex, Despised Icon, Oceano and Fleshgod Apocalypse. The band has continued growing into a national headlining act, self-managed and independent from a label, represented by agent Nick Storch of Artist Group International.
Their third full length release, Melancholy, captures the mix of aggression, desperation and energy described by its name perfectly. Combining brooding darkness with high-energy salvos of scalding metal, Shadow of Intent move away from the -core moniker appended to their previous releases on Melancholy, drawing heavily from the likes of blackened and symphonic death metal to make an incredibly diverse record that runs the spectrum of human emotion as readily as it runs the spectrum of metallic sub genres—promising to be anything but a melancholic experience for heavy music enthusiasts.