Biography
Hailing from Chicago, Veil of Maya fuses djent and deathcore ingredients into the band’s aggressive sonic attack. Emerging in 2004, the group followed a rigid deathcore blueprint across its first recordings, among them the 2010 release Id. Clean vocals entered the picture on the Billboard-charting Matriarch in 2015, steering the band toward metalcore territory, while False Idol in 2017 and [m]other in 2023 layered in the signature palm-muted pulse of djent.
Marc Okubo on guitar, Sam Applebaum on drums, and Kris Higler on bass—all former members of Insurrection—launched the project in 2004 and expanded to a five-piece upon recruiting guitarist Bryan Ruppell and vocalist Adam Clemans. The self-produced debut All Things Set Aside appeared in 2006, after which the musicians devoted the bulk of the following two years to relentless regional and national touring in support. Clemans and Ruppell departed before the second album, The Common Man’s Collapse, which arrived in 2008 via Sumerian Records and introduced new vocalist Brandon Butler. The band backed the record with prominent dates alongside Arsis, A Life Once Lost, and labelmates Born of Osiris. Higler exited in 2009, opening the door for former Born of Osiris bassist Matthew Pantelis, whose first contribution came on 2010’s Id. Produced by Michael Keene of the Faceless, that album climbed to number 107 on the Billboard 200. Eclipse followed in 2012, a concise and ferocious statement just over 28 minutes long that featured Dan Hauser stepping in on bass in place of Matthew Pantelis.
Brandon Butler departed in 2014 over creative differences, and the arrival of Lukas Magyar, formerly of Arms of Empire, marked a fresh chapter. Introducing clean singing for the first time, the metalcore-oriented Matriarch of 2015 became the band’s strongest commercial showing, peaking at number two on the Billboard hard-rock chart. Now reduced to a quartet of Okubo, Applebaum, Hauser, and Magyar, the group previewed the djent-driven False Idol with the singles “Overthrow” and “Doublespeak” in 2017; the album once again landed high on Billboard’s rock tallies. Three standalone tracks—“Outrun,” “Viscera,” and “Outsider”—surfaced across 2020 and 2021, followed in 2022 by the prog-metalcore-leaning “Synthwave Vegan.” The similar “Godhead” and “Red Fur” emerged in early 2023, all three songs ultimately appearing on the sixth album, [m]other, issued that May.
Marc Okubo on guitar, Sam Applebaum on drums, and Kris Higler on bass—all former members of Insurrection—launched the project in 2004 and expanded to a five-piece upon recruiting guitarist Bryan Ruppell and vocalist Adam Clemans. The self-produced debut All Things Set Aside appeared in 2006, after which the musicians devoted the bulk of the following two years to relentless regional and national touring in support. Clemans and Ruppell departed before the second album, The Common Man’s Collapse, which arrived in 2008 via Sumerian Records and introduced new vocalist Brandon Butler. The band backed the record with prominent dates alongside Arsis, A Life Once Lost, and labelmates Born of Osiris. Higler exited in 2009, opening the door for former Born of Osiris bassist Matthew Pantelis, whose first contribution came on 2010’s Id. Produced by Michael Keene of the Faceless, that album climbed to number 107 on the Billboard 200. Eclipse followed in 2012, a concise and ferocious statement just over 28 minutes long that featured Dan Hauser stepping in on bass in place of Matthew Pantelis.
Brandon Butler departed in 2014 over creative differences, and the arrival of Lukas Magyar, formerly of Arms of Empire, marked a fresh chapter. Introducing clean singing for the first time, the metalcore-oriented Matriarch of 2015 became the band’s strongest commercial showing, peaking at number two on the Billboard hard-rock chart. Now reduced to a quartet of Okubo, Applebaum, Hauser, and Magyar, the group previewed the djent-driven False Idol with the singles “Overthrow” and “Doublespeak” in 2017; the album once again landed high on Billboard’s rock tallies. Three standalone tracks—“Outrun,” “Viscera,” and “Outsider”—surfaced across 2020 and 2021, followed in 2022 by the prog-metalcore-leaning “Synthwave Vegan.” The similar “Godhead” and “Red Fur” emerged in early 2023, all three songs ultimately appearing on the sixth album, [m]other, issued that May.
Albums
Singles
