Veil of Remembrance is the second full-length album by the Swedish group Crimson Moonlight

Crimson Moonlight

Crimson Moonlight is a Swedish Christian black metal band which was formed in the summer of 1997 with the mere intention of recording a primitive old school black metal demo and playing one show before breaking up. However, the breakup never happened, and they have since recorded two EPs and two...

. Veil of Remembrance was officially released on January 26, 2005 although it was already available since December 4, 2004.

Overview

On Veil of Remembrance, Crimson Moonlight began playing a hybrid mixture of black and death metal with grindcore influences. Simon Rosén has said about the stylistic direction:
Veil of Remembrance received a positive reception, as Rosén says:

Track listing

1. "Intimations of Everlasting Constancy" - 04:42
2. "Painful Mind Contradiction" - 04:31
3. "Embraced by the Beauty of Cold" - 03:15
4. "The Echoes of Thought" - 03:55
5. "My Grief, My Remembrance" - 05:31
6. "The Cold Grip of Terror" - 05:41
7. "Illusion Was True Beauty" - 04:45
8. "Contemplations Along the Way" - 05:53
9. "Reflections Upon the Distress and Agony of Faith" - 05:00

Curiosity

The Lyrics of the tracks 8 and 9 ("Contemplations Along the Way" - "Reflections Upon the Distress and Agony of Faith") are a text parts of the Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...

's book "Fear and Trembling

Fear and Trembling

Fear and Trembling is an influential philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio...

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