Every Limb Of The Flood, the debut full-length from DREAMLESS VEIL, featuring members of Inter Arma, Artificial Brain, and Psycroptic, is out today on Relapse Records!
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DREAMLESS VEIL is an extreme metal band composed of Artificial Brain guitarist Dan Gargiulo, Inter Arma/Artificial Brain vocalist Mike Paparo, and Psycroptic drummer Dave Haley.
The band’s debut, Every Limb Of The Flood, is a blackened concept album that follows the travails of Grief, a character who awakens from extended debauchery and begins the slow and torturous process of trying to disappear completely. Through tracks such as “A Generation Of Eyes,” “Saturnism,” and “Cyanide Mine,” vocalist Mike Paparo and company task the listener to consider what it would be like for an individual to fully disappear. DREAMLESS VEIL delves into this murk through eight tracks – dramatic swells, melodic crescendos, and abrasive blast-beat poundings make way to more introspective moments ultimately resulting in pure horror.
Paparo explores the concept of corporeal disintegration with pained shrieks and disembodied bellows, resulting in one of the most unchained performances of his storied career. Lyrics for the record show, but don’t tell. DREAMLESS VEIL's concept alludes to misery leading to grotesquery. The opener “Dim Golden Rave” throws the listener into an ambiguous time and place: “Grief, spiritless, collapses against the filth-ridden street.” The second track, “A Generation Of Eyes,” follows this narrative by invoking Neil Young, quoting him to the extent of “rust never sleeps.” What ensues is a grief so powerful it decomposes from within. The end result manifests in the album closer “Dreamless.” The body is now fully discarded, hinting at a possible enlightenment through a horrible, gruesome process.
Sonically, Every Limb Of The Flood is a caustic, corrosive journey. Haley flexes some of his most creative drum work to date, dragging the listener through wild tempo changes, breakneck speeds that come to sudden halts, Gargiulo interweaves disorienting guitar madness.
Every Limb Of The Flood was recorded by Brett Bamberger (Revocation), Every Limb Of The Flood was mixed by Gargiulo and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice).
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