Label Description:
“Only a year after the release of their critically acclaimed “The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom” album, Veilburner are returning with their eighth full-length album, titled “Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy.”
In the spirit of striking while the iron is hot, this eighth evolution of the Veilburner story capitalizes on momentum while simultaneously achieving new heights in their song-crafting and story-telling. It leads their characters on a journey in which they cannot recognize triumph without tragedy, and sees them residing somewhere between the abyss and their devotion to mortal re-occurrence, that which seems to attract death. They face not just any death, but the kind in which they are bound to an infinite loop of reincarnation and destined to repeat the same traumas and failures as before. They continue to suffer like two dragons consuming one another in a serpentine-like fashion until one can no longer consume the other, frozen in the shape of infinity (∞) and numerologically represented by the digit eight (8). Samael (the “poison of god” and the eighth sphere of the Qlippoth), as well as Choronzon (the dweller of the threshold) and the Ouroboros all correlate with this symbol of infinity and exist in Veilburner’s lore as the antagonistic and immutable eternity, which if confronted can lead to self-destruction and the finality of manifestation, permanently breaking the loop.
Mephisto’s discordant cacophony of dripping notes and riff-filled rot remain foul as ever, yet undeniably addictive. The music twists and turns on itself in an auditory embodiment of the album’s theme and takes the listener on a snaking, bending musical roller coaster that seemingly ends at the precipice of where it began, endlessly inviting another listen. Chrisom Infernium acts as a medium, casting shadows of hiss filled hymns that harken to the past call to the present channeling the chatter of choired cataclysms, creating doppelgängers of sonic dispersions which leave the listener to contemplate if they are willing to confront the thing they fear most, the true version of themselves.”
Genre – Avantgarde Death/Black Metal
For fans of – Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant, Deathspell Omega, Hexrot, Oranssi Pazuzu, Akhyls, Akercocke
In the spirit of striking while the iron is hot, this eighth evolution of the Veilburner story capitalizes on momentum while simultaneously achieving new heights in their song-crafting and story-telling. It leads their characters on a journey in which they cannot recognize triumph without tragedy, and sees them residing somewhere between the abyss and their devotion to mortal re-occurrence, that which seems to attract death. They face not just any death, but the kind in which they are bound to an infinite loop of reincarnation and destined to repeat the same traumas and failures as before. They continue to suffer like two dragons consuming one another in a serpentine-like fashion until one can no longer consume the other, frozen in the shape of infinity (∞) and numerologically represented by the digit eight (8). Samael (the “poison of god” and the eighth sphere of the Qlippoth), as well as Choronzon (the dweller of the threshold) and the Ouroboros all correlate with this symbol of infinity and exist in Veilburner’s lore as the antagonistic and immutable eternity, which if confronted can lead to self-destruction and the finality of manifestation, permanently breaking the loop.
Mephisto’s discordant cacophony of dripping notes and riff-filled rot remain foul as ever, yet undeniably addictive. The music twists and turns on itself in an auditory embodiment of the album’s theme and takes the listener on a snaking, bending musical roller coaster that seemingly ends at the precipice of where it began, endlessly inviting another listen. Chrisom Infernium acts as a medium, casting shadows of hiss filled hymns that harken to the past call to the present channeling the chatter of choired cataclysms, creating doppelgängers of sonic dispersions which leave the listener to contemplate if they are willing to confront the thing they fear most, the true version of themselves.”
Genre – Avantgarde Death/Black Metal
For fans of – Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant, Deathspell Omega, Hexrot, Oranssi Pazuzu, Akhyls, Akercocke
Line up –
Mephisto Deleterio – Music and production
Chrisom Infernium – Vocals, lyrics, and album design
Cover artwork by Luciana Nedelea
PRESS –
► “this is another masterpiece full of high level song crafting” – Metal Epidemic 5/5
www.metalepidemic.com/veilburner-longing-for-triumph-reeking-of-tragedy
► “these guys are at the top of the current black metal scene” – Sputnik Music 4.8/5
www.sputnikmusic.com/review/90318/Veilburner-Longing-for-Triumph-Reeking-of-Tragedy
► “Genuinely innovative” – Deaf Sparrow 4.8/5
www.deafsparrow.com/2025/11/11/veilburner-longing-for-triumph-reeking-of-tragedy-gnostic-nihilistic-experimental-black-metal/
► “Veilburner cements itself as one of the premier acts of the mirky underworld” – Head-Banger Reviews
headbangerreviews.com/2025/09/26/veilburner-longing-for-triumph-reeking-of-tragedy/
► “they consistently surprise with strange and captivating elements of extreme metal” – Metallerium Webzine 9.3/10
www.metallerium.com/veilburner-longing-for-triumph-reeking-of-tragedy-2025
► “This is some very weird (and very good!) death metal” – Heavy Blog Is Heavy TOP PICK
www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/11/14/release-day-roundup-12
► “the album you must check out before the year ends. Once again, it seems we won’t be able to ignore Veilburner” – Metal Eclipse Reviews 4/5
metaleclipsereviews.com/2025/10/05/veilburner-longing-for-triumph-reeking-of-tragedy/
► “a long, strange trip is all but guaranteed” – Toilet ov Hell
toiletovhell.com/this-toilet-tuesday-11-11-25
► “They don’t trifle with the straight and narrow in their songwriting either, preferring the unpredictable and the apparently macabre” – No Clean Singing
www.nocleansinging.com/2025/10/23/an-ncs-premiere-veilburner-matter-o-the-most-awful-martyrs
► “rip your psyche from its mortal cradle for another round of face melting black/death metal in the vein only Veilburner can deliver on” – The Razor’s Edge
therazorsedge.rocks/2025-11-album-review-veilburner
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