VEILBURNER - All That Glimmers Is Gloam
Transcending Obscurity Records
I first became a fan of this US Blackened Death metal act back in January of 2019 after hearing their fourth full length, A Sire to the Ghouls of Lunacy, which came out at the very end of 2018. Since then I think every full length that's followed is some of the greatest Extreme Metal in this modern era. It's not that they continue a cool sound. Instead they progress, experiment and produce changes to their sound which makes em unique as well as damm good.
There's not many Extreme Metal acts out there who push things to a crazy level more with album after album. In all honesty I like my comfort level when it comes to Metal. But once in a while I appreciate acts who just go berserk and VEILBURNER are the top one of them. I mean listening to this new one you get an infection of blood thirsty Black Metal (especially in the vocals) meets KING CRIMSON with the crazy riffs / song structures.
I mean something I had said before and that's this is a perfect example of total filth and hatred meeting beauty in a hellhole of shit. VEILBURNER are a two piece act hailing from somewhere in Pennsylvania. The two individuals are David Moody who's responsible for all instruments and Chris Sheppard on vocals. I lived in Pennsylvania many years ago and I could not come up with this must hatred and despair.
This new album is nine cuts of mostly hate filled anthems based on insanity. There's one cut, "Dis Obedient Woe", which slows things down to a Gothic Doom level. But the rest is far more insane. After listening to the latter half of this album I wanna say "My name is Lucifer and where's my medication?"
The bottom line is that VEILBURNER have put out another amazing album. As always it's a listening experience as opposed to just a cool release. And again hard to find something better than this out there. David Moody, aka: Mephisto Deleterio, is an amazing songwriter. The song craft he creates is blackened chaos which somehow works. Add to that vocalist Chris Sheppard, aka: Chrisom Infernium, who in the past I refereed to as a drunken priest suffering from rabies. Vocally his style is inbetween MAYHEM's Attila Csihar and FUNERAL MIST / MARDUK's Mortuus. Which is why I think this is the most exciting album I've heard in 2026. Call it Black Metal (which I'm leaning to) or Blackened Death. For me it's the best.
LISTEN HERE:
https://veilburnerband.bandcamp.com/album/all-that-glimmers-is-gloam
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