Rent Veil

Rent Veil is a a southern heavy rock/metal trio from the Knoxville, TN area. Influences such as Blackfoot and Black Sabbath are apparent in Rent Veil's writing, as well as more modern influences such as Black Stone Cherry and Lamb of God. Rent Veil features three veterans of music.
In mid November of 2007, in the backwoods of eastern Tennessee, the chill in the air was simply a promise of another long winter to come. There was a sound that rang through that cold air, a din - if you will, of something new and exciting. This clamor carried with it the beauty of an Easter morning sunrise service, the aggression of a "hell fire and brimstone" southern Baptist preacher and the soul of southern roots that had once been covered with the filth of a Godless world. This sound, this music became - Rent Veil.
Rent Veil continued throughout the winter, into 2008 and recorded their first demo in February. The demo was titled "Union". The trio of musicians, Tym Walker - Vocals and Guitars, Greg Frye - Drums and Vocals and Doug McDaniel - Bass - performed, grew and honed their skills throughout various parts of the United States, alongside acts such as Demon Hunter, As I Lay Dying, Impending Doom and more. Performances included their first ever at GMA Music Week (Nashville, TN) for Raging Storm Records and the always amazing - ever growing Cornerstone Music Festival in Bushnell, IL among others.
Entering a new decade in 2010 - the music known as "Southern Praise Metal" drifted from a mainly metal standpoint into a southern roots filled metal niche. With the addition of Wes LeQuire on bass in early 2010 (following previous bassists McDaniel and Travis "Monkey" Tapp) the spirit and power of Rent Veil grew and flourished into a true machine like southern metal power trio. Influences from thrash metal, death metal, southern rock, blues and even southern gospel were apparent in the structure of Rent Veil's music. Though just when it "seems" everything is going great, it's not....
In early 2011, before the release of their debut "Praise, Honour and Glory", Rent Veil disbanded and went their separate ways. In mid 2012, founder, vocalist and guitarist - Tym Walker knew that it was time to resurrect Rent Veil, so the work and prayers began to find the proper musicians to fill the slots that remained vacant. Curtis Myers (bass) was quick to jump on board as he had traveled with Rent Veil throughout the previous years and knew the music very well. Finding a drummer took much more time... but on Christmas Eve 2012, Rent Veil officially announced that Roy "Animal" Clemmer was taking the position of drummer.
In spring of 2013 Curtis Myers decided to leave Rent Veil. After a few calls, some texts and some time together Rent Veil were humbled and extremely excited to welcome music veteran and former Death Row, Pentagram and Place Of Skull bassist - Lee Abney to the Rent Veil fold. After 3 shows Lee decided to leave Rent Veil due to personal reasons. Shortly thereafter, Roy Clemmer exited also. In October of 2013 new bassist Randy "Gutt" Seale joined Tym and the two began to work and seek the proper drummer to complete the fold. After quite a few auditions, veteran musician and drummer Arlie Shultz III was chosen as Rent Veil's timekeeper - January 2014.
"Rent Veil have harnessed the power of their previous musical ventures and held on tightly to their southern roots to produce the Rent Veil sound. Combining their backgrounds in music, along with thought provoking lyrics and showing their diversity with some captivating (yet haunting) ballads - Rent Veil are a new breed of American metal! Feeling a close connection to the blue collar working man of America, including our bravehearted military, Rent Veil continue to focus on what is real and what is right... hard working attitudes, sweat of the brow, never wavering or concerning themselves with being politically correct, despising today's Godless trends and staying true to their vision. This "IS" Southern Praise Metal!"