VEIL OF THORNS Eschaton & Celebration
Pleasure Machine Mask Our Fascination Inner Moonlight An Edifice Tottering Entities Ideation Ante-Chamber Glass Chasm Messenger Of Night System Response Oh, this Suffering Was Glad Slithers Corrode The Need
VEIL OF THORNS Eschaton & Celebration Veil Of Thorns are beyond anything you have experienced and combines so much to make quite a unique sound. - Culture Asylum Magazine ...hear some of the mysterious and dark emotional music from Veil of Thorns. Carrying their tape in your hands or listening to the music you’ll feel that you have a part of their souls, not just a lifeless product as in so many other cases… - Wounded Magazine
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Eschaton (Noun) - From Ancient Greek ἔσχατον (eskhaton), neuter singular of ἔσχατος (eskhatos, “last”). (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives. (literally) the last; used in theology to refer Veil of Thorns is an edgy, eclectic blend of electronica and metal. It reminds me of to the world's state during the posthistoric era of God's early Bowie in that it pushes the overt (apocalyptic) reign, immediately preceding the end envelope, shakes up the status quo, and of the world. demands attention. We're entering a new world of music indeed - one that's refreshingly different. the Cognitive Dissonance title track is ominous, like free-falling into a dark abyss. "Peripatetic" pushes us over the edge of insanity. "A Weirdness Less Expressed" can only be described as enigmatic or avant-garde. The instrumental "Surgically Dream Like" feels like anesthetic wearing off while you're on the operating table – terrifying! - (Athena) - Gothic Beauty
Celebration (Noun) - The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament - The observance of a holiday or feast day, as by solemnities - The act, process of showing appreciation, gratitude and/or remembrance, notably as a social event.- A social gathering for entertainment and fun; a party.
will land them a big record deal, there are some artists wading sternly through the same muddy waters with more artistic sensibilities. Veil Of Thorns may make threatening music but it is not without gentler asides, and often presents itself in alluring form. - Mick Mercer
Eschaton & Celebration opens up to an experience of the final stage of apocalypse. This is a journey into the heart of chaos that indeed does celebrate the end of everything familiar in cultural, spiritual and physical reality itself.
After completing a tour of the US and Europe with Jarboe, head necrofuturist of Veil of Thorns, P. Emerson Williams gathered impressions, thoughts and notes written down along the way to bring the whole into the twisted Just when you have become used to experiencing your guitar stimulants, your form of Eschaton & Celebration. ethereal relaxants, your electronic Veil of Thorns are known for covering much ground placebo, along comes Doctor Thorns, like sonically and conceptually. There is the punk-noir and a knight in deliberately ill-fitting armour lyrical meditations on being an outsider and lubrication of and bellows ‘No more!’ causing all patients to fall from their beds. Where a the wheels of empire on Vampire Wars. There is the lot of old-school Industrialists make musical hall of mirrors and dispatches from the charred deliberately obscure, ugly amateurish fields of the apocalypsis of the act of artistic creation found trash and new Industrialists churn out whatever club-friendly sounds they hope on the twin albums Necrofuturist and Salon Apocalypse.
One could easily call it goth, avant-garde, industrial, drum & bass, dark psychedelia but that would limit the parameters since it is in fact all of that yet something even more nebulous. - ReGen Magazine Electronic flavored beats, heavy synthing mixed with edgy guitar weepings and highly new wave influenced vox come together on a goth act that should not be ignored by those who grew up listening to The Cure, Bauhaus and others. Only Veil of Thorns' sound is all its own, mind you. - Chaindlk.com It's really difficult to describe the music of Veil of Thorns - but lovers of raw, earthy gothic rock should love it. Pure filth (which is a good thing!). - Janis Kalifatidis, Fight Amnesia Magazine I have said it before but one element that really makes Veil of Thorns stand out against any background is Williams voice. The disparate landscapes form a backdrop for his strange disharmonious singing. He manages to convey a clear sense of confusion and alienation, and his vocals are more reminiscent of David Bowie than the common post industrial fare. In addition deft instrumentation and production makes every Veil of Thorns release worth listening to – and we certainly hope there are still many of those in store. - Kaliglimmer Rarely do I come across a recording that stumps me the way this one did. Before hearing it I was aware of Veil of Thorns, and I had heard the occasional track, but after listening I can say that I am most assuredly a fan. The title for the album is Salon Apocalypse, and it is certainly apt considering the mood of the music presented. It feels like I am comfortably seated looking out at an apocalypse slowly being unveiled in the light of the setting sun. Whether this is an apocalypse in its original meaning (revelation), or the fall of civilization is not yet evident, but I have a feeling it may indeed be both. The two experiences are certainly not mutally exclusive. - Heathen Harvest on Veil of Thorns – Salon Apocalypse (2010)
Eschaton & Celebration Track List: Pleasure Machine Mask Our Fascination Inner Moonlight An Edifice Tottering Entities Ideation Ante-Chamber Glass Chasm Messenger Of Night System Response Oh, this Suffering Was Glad Slithers Corrode The Need
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PLEASURE MACHINE Trail closed beyond themselves Remember the hail Para-mythic notions Closed memories, reset Pleasure machine, pleasure machine Pleasure machine, lash Pleasure machine, pleasure machine Pleasure machine, lash In comes the believers End black summoned presence Statistics, ecstatics, feedback The sound, the presence Transmissions Lights watching out Chosen memories become enigmatic No prize in justice, the distillation Scattered realizing craving, Blasphemous beginning Receive the comfortable Statement Lightening sequentially grew Ride in battlefields Put inspirators used to whole Beginning Directed at earth, subject of hope Pleasure machine, pleasure machine Pleasure machine, lash Pleasure machine, pleasure machine Pleasure machine, lash
MASK OUR FASCINATION Home where a carved grotesque imagination Is the horror of the Art. Study, lies. A declaration infected each sun Forever with flawed wanderlust madness. The undying prophesy, screen observations, Monitor patrons, masquerade, argue art. And Three red imaginary dream Disguise words, on the knowledge possibility Of innocence conjunction. Identities, other Trouble, dimension Found. Humanity, thoughts glow, all perpetuated time. Scripted dispersion poison, the undying cloud, That night still mask our fascination The undying prophesy, screen observations, Monitor patrons, masquerade, argue art. And Three red imaginary dream Disguise words, on the knowledge possibility Of innocence conjunction.
Where the casting was of the night On my name, hubris, persuasion Clouded that summit The majestic filth which ill eclipses miracle Oh, we will always have the spark On which the shadows scream Inner moonlight Unseeing, dark illusion led Flitting, never a sin, in knowledge Art in exploitation Inner moonlight Holy, sad story, august and light And we shared in the promise A wintertime deceased Inner moonlight Decedent's stark fall Gutters contorted Waste moon Aspect of my sown subconscious Two wounds that are fire to heat Angel limbo scripted Devising most to resurrect it Slithers out with profusion From Nameless thought
Inner moonlight Unseeing, dark illusion led Flitting, never a sin, in knowledge Art in exploitation Inner moonlight Holy, sad story, august and light And we shared in the promise A wintertime deceased Inner moonlight Inner moonlight Unseeing, dark illusion led Flitting, never a sin, in knowledge Art in exploitation Inner moonlight Holy, sad story, august and light And we shared in the promise A wintertime deceased Inner moonlight The stories of tensions Absconds with public amusement To meet some mad thing's eyes Inner Moonlight Scattered written torture you made reality We mask the fascination too poor Inner moonlight
ENTITIES Those seed eyes rose Earthquakes words in disguise The destiny of form Entities lying unbound Their pleas unseeing Conclusion led
IDEATION ANTE-CHAMBER But this cage decedents mushroom Intuition Open, tune in to sensationalism Mythology of work that throne Remnants cross rehearsal indicates Work misery contorted books misleading Up there by bleeding murder of rage The figure creations discovery Dwelling in restriction hands apply The hunger exploitation Rarely Found beings grown strange The ideation ante-chamber Dying matters Intelligence, knife, pleasure Dead around light dripping insanity blood model Contains obscuring following static under the seeds The quelling and innocence disease eating their arm Just cannibals debate memory eating Sacrifice a time realization that technology flesh artworks Pervasiveness and glow denial words the abhorred Straining felt in half-hidden power touch years of vision The hunger exploitation Rarely Found beings grown strange The ideation ante-chamber Dying matters Intelligence, knife, pleasure
MESSENGER OF NIGHT The flesh between my teeth Slid from my initial probing bite Like the sensual slithering of a raw oyster The messenger of night In this place with no moon or sun, No time of day or season, The light of morning seeps in By common consensus I see, I heard I see, I heard The messenger of night
OH, THIS SUFFERING WAS GLAD But oh, This suffering was glad The dispassionate obeyed True light imprisoned, true light imprisoned True light imprisoned, true light imprisoned Love frontier, love frontier Love frontier, love frontier Differ, offering, the old cult Differ, offering, the old cult Differ, offering, the old cult Differ, offering, the old cult Disbelief is sanctified Disbelief is sanctified But oh, This suffering was glad The dispassionate obeyed Deteriorating vast industrialisation condemned All population enhance tide rise spirits widespread The primeval intergalactic fever dimension within Darkness tended a strange slow redemption sin Into the cruel cosmic endless city straight unto the screen With the power of everything As pleasure in the misery True light imprisoned, true light imprisoned True light imprisoned, true light imprisoned Disbelief is sanctified Disbelief is sanctified But oh, This suffering was glad The dispassionate obeyed
Current Members: P. Emerson Williams – (Choronzon, kkoagulaa, Touring Guitarist with Jarboe) - Vocals, Guitar, bass, cello, keyboards, programming Ruddy Bitch – Drums, Electronic Soundwaves, percussive Manipulations
Releases: Demo 1991 – Cassette Study In Decay Demo – Cassette – 1992 A dream Withing A Dream Compilation CD – 1993 Legemet Og Stemmen Demo – Cassette – 1993 Lust Beyond Flesh 7" ep – 1994 Hex Files II Compilation – 1996 Cafe Flesh CD – 2002 Birthed CD – 2002 Nosferatu Original Score – 2003 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Original Score – 2004 Legemet Og Stemmen Demo Remastered CD – 2005 Manifestation Objective CD – 2005 Cognitive Dissonance CD – 2007 The End of the Beginning – First album sessions 1992 – Remastered 2008 The Dead God Sessions CD – Second lineup album sessions 1996 – Remastered 2008 Live WMFO 1991 – 2008 Live Halloween 1992 WMFO – 2008 Bats in the Belfry 1994 Live – 2008 The Gothic Sounds Of Nightbreed 5 Compilaiton CD – 2009 Salon Apocalypse – 2009 Necrofuturist – 2010 Menagerie Of Suffering Download Compilation – 2011 Vampire Wars – 2011 Dead God (Early Unreleased Tracks) – 2012 The Girl Without A Face EP – 2012 Diamond Dust Blowback EP – 2012 An Okkvlt and Witch House Tribute to Dario Argento's Suspiria Compilation CD – 2012 Dispirit Brutal Leech Servants (Single) – 2012 Operation Payload Download Compilation – 2012 GOTHRONOMICON – 2012 PARA-ABNORMAL 2013 Mask Our Fascination (Single) - 2014 Ideation Antechamber (Single) - 2014 Inner Moonlight (Single) - 2014 Eschaton & Celebration - 2014 URL's: http://veilofthorns.com http://www.panicmachine.com