Luminous Veil

The human condition is informed by obscure machinations where actions are driven by the corrupting force of sensation and mystifying qualia. Thoughts align to the patterns we’re compelled to perceive with voided interest in validity. This veil cannot be lifted. So, the sorrows of life must become you – an experience that Luminous Veil transpose as their sonic mission.

Luminous Veil, born in the twilight of 2018, is a USA-based duo creating atmospheric and eclectic black metal. Their proclivity to experiment in songwriting and production has rendered divergent sounds – some archaic and black (Clair), some lustrous and cinematic (Morbid Rubicon, Vespers…) and yet, some deathlike and industrial (Oikterion).

Conceptually diverse, Luminous Veil’s discography explores the infinity of life and non-life. Themes of history, folklore, speculative realism, occult philosophies, political radicalism are encircled by recurrent spells of trauma, nostalgia, anxiety and loss. Luminous Veil is as much progressive as it is depressive.

Their latest album, 2025's "Where Malefic Icons do Eons Keep" offers trenchant black metal underpinning layers of antagonistic thrash riffing; a marked distinction for their prolific catalogue. Here, ghostly choirs soar with bygone synths and church organs. Together, a sonic rendering of the nether itself, through the lens of metallic odium.

Prolifically creative, Luminous Veil has produced several LPs, EPs, Split albums and cover songs.