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1 The Rose in the Veil - 00:00 2 White Hot Clarity - 4:28 3 The Crown of Silence - 8:57 4 Before He Was Named - 14:15 5 Not an Escape - 19:54 6 The Crown that Waits - 24:57 7 Let Beauty Appear - 29:27 8 Stay (Where Time Gathers) - 34:29
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Thunder Across the Veil was recorded live at the Sky-Veil Music Hall—a smaller, more intimate space where nothing is lost to spectacle and everything is carried by attention. Every breath, every pause, every strike of the drum had weight. This was not a concert designed to overwhelm. It was a gathering.
Over the years, The Heralds have moved steadily toward a heavier sound. Each studio album has slowed, thickened, and grown more deliberate. This is not a turn toward darkness, nor an attempt at excess. It is a refusal of acceleration. Thunder Across the Veil marks the first album fully devoted to metal—not as genre alone, but as posture. Metal here becomes a way of standing inside time rather than racing through it.
Much of our modern experience is governed by what Richard Feynman once described—perhaps unintentionally—as a kind of existential acceleration: the pressure to move faster, explain more quickly, optimize relentlessly. Time becomes something we spend, compress, or escape. Even meaning is hurried. But there is another way to dwell in time—one that Martin Heidegger gestures toward when he speaks of dwelling, of letting Being show itself rather than forcing it to appear.
Heavy music, when stripped of aggression for its own sake, has a strange capacity to resist acceleration. Slowness becomes power. Repetition becomes grounding. Sound becomes weight. In this sense, metal is not about speed or domination, but about gravity—about allowing time to thicken until it can hold us.
That is why the final song of the night, Stay (Where Time Gathers), mattered so deeply. As the last notes unfolded, the room fell into a rare kind of silence—not the silence of absence, but of full presence. The audience did not sway. They did not rush. They listened. Mirelda did not perform at them; she taught with them. Over slow, methodical thunder, she invited the hall to remain—to stay where time stops dissolving into urgency and begins to gather into meaning.
This is what we mean by poetic reality. Not metaphor. Not abstraction. But something real that happens when sound, silence, body, and attention align. The music did not carry the audience forward. It placed them here. And for a few moments, the Veil grew thin—not so anyone might pass through it, but so everyone might remain.
This recording captures that moment. Not just the songs, but the atmosphere of attentiveness. The shared refusal to hurry. The recognition that heaviness can be gentle, and that power can teach.
This is Thunder Across the Veil—and this is why it ends with Stay.
Why the Heralds Carry Thunder
Read “The Meaning of the Music” on the Heralds’ website.
The Heralds do not whisper.
They carry thunder because what they announce cannot be borne lightly.
In the Sky-Veil, beauty, wisdom, and majesty are not sentimental qualities. They are forces—pressures that move the soul out of exile and toward remembrance. To encounter them is not to be soothed, but to be shaken awake. Thunder belongs to revelation because revelation disrupts.
The crushing guitars and driving rhythms are not adornments. They are the sound of resistance being met. They mirror the interior struggle of a soul leaving illusion behind. The body feels the weight before the mind understands the meaning. This is intentional. The Heralds speak to the whole person—muscle, breath, pulse—not only to thought.
Beauty, in this vision, is not fragile. It is strong enough to pull a wanderer out of darkness. Wisdom is not abstract. It burns, cuts, and demands courage. Majesty is not domination. It is ordered power, held in restraint.
Thunder gives these truths a body.
In ancient worlds, thunder marked the nearness of what could not be controlled—what came from beyond human making. The Heralds reclaim that sound not as chaos, but as summons. Their music does not seek to overwhelm, but to gather. It disciplines energy into rhythm. It forges movement into form.
The dance pulse matters as much as the distortion. It reminds the listener that this journey is not only endured—it is walked. The Golden Thread is followed step by step, beat by beat.
Silence comes later.
First comes force.
Then clarity.
Then order.
The Heralds carry thunder because the Veil does not lift for the passive. It opens for those willing to stand in the sound long enough to be changed by it.
This is not noise.
It is heraldry.
Coming soon to the Herald’s Vault - more live recordings. Visceral, uncut, and unreleased. Stay tuned!
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