What would it be like to disappear into thin air? Dreamless Veil gives us an answer to this in the most eerie and introspective way, with music that transcends the realms of the corporeal. The body being portrayed as a mere vessel, that just as the blast beats and shrieking vocals can be shattered, dissolved into nothing in the most gruesome way. Let’s travel into this sonic tale, which is beautifully crafted and materialised with Every Limb of the Flood. Be prepared to venture into this concept album with the idea that we, as listeners, will fully evaporate into its sound.

Dreamless Veil features members of Inter Arma, Artificial Brain and Psychotropic. This album was recorded by Brett Bramberger (Revocation) and mixed by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice, etc.). This album consists of 8 tracks; all bone-chilling, and that is a feeling that keeps growing as we go deep into the album that I would describe as what pure horror stories are made of. Hopefully you, the listeners, are fully ready for it.

Every Limb of the Flood starts with “Dim Golden Rave”, with some ghoulish sounds that end as soon as the guitar grooves and drumming starts. Mike Parparo’s vocals are like a shriek that breaks into the darkness followed by the double drums and making the start of this album an unsettling one. The pace slowly picks up, but not letting go of that feeling of impending grief. On the second track, “A Generation of Eyes”, it’s like the bassline provides a melodic background; the anguish and despair in the vocals only match the fast paced drumming. This almost feels like the body is starting to go into decay. The more I listen to this track, which is my favourite, it haunts me: the melodic moments take over like sadness, as if the body is starting to give up. Saturnism starts with a face pace - the relentless drums starting that decomposing process from within, the pace becoming slow, just to have those vocals pierce into the quiet and the crescendo giving way into the dissolving matter. The guitar has an almost harrowing melody, almost like a warning. This has to be my second favourite track of Every Limb of the Flood. Not even half way into the album and it’s a heart wrenching experience. “The Stirring of Flies” follows that same cadence, this album really showcases David Haley’s drumming, very creative and amazing tempo changes and speeds. This keeps on being the case with the rest of the tracks. Now I will skip to the track that has the same name as the album: “Every Limb of the Flood”. The speed on this one is perfect for headbanging, the anguish and despair that precludes the process of disappearance is palpable. This same process is almost coming to an end with “Dreamless”, this one concludes this experience but don’t despair, this almost gives a momentary sense of hope that might last: a sort of enlightenment through a very painful thing, for the body, the vessel, to be discarded.

This to me, is one of the darkest and most haunting releases of this year. This is blackened extreme metal at its finest, given the background of the musicians involved, I’m in awe of what has been accomplished with Every Limb of the Flood.