Velvet Chains started in Las Vegas in 2018, playing covers and figuring out their pace. By 2020, they shifted to original material. The first album, “Icarus,” came out in 2021 with guest spots from Richard Fortus, Jeff Rouse, and Mike Squires. It was later pulled, but three tracks were re-recorded with Ro Viper on vocals to align with the band’s present and future. And speaking about that, they’ve just released a new single and music video titled “How the Story Ends”
Bassist Nils Goldschmidt confesses that “How The Story Ends” is the most emotionally direct track they’ve released. It’s built around loss and the quiet work of recovery in a world that’s fractured and intensely incoherent. Goldschmidt describes it as raw and haunting, and that fits perfectly with the savage, insane asylum imagery that the band employs in the music video, which somewhat reminds me of how rock/nu-metal music videos used to look in the early 2010s. There are some really cool, dark vibes all around.
The intensity in “How The Story Ends” isn’t just in the guitars or the pacing, but in the posture of the whole track and its video. That shot of Nils Goldschmidt doing pushups alone in a dark room doesn’t feel tacked-on but severely on point: Excruciating physical repetition as a way to stay grounded when everything else is shifting. The song leans into that space where chaos starts to feel routine, where madness isn’t explosive but cyclical, familiar, almost structured, and the sad outcome, a predictable one, that’s what makes this track really stand out.
The band’s structure changed in 2024, but the core remains steady. Bassist Nils Goldschmidt is still there, now joined by Ro Viper, Lahi Cassiano, Jason Hope, and Von Boldt. Their chemistry feels sharper, more deliberate, and their sound has matured without losing its grit. If “How the Story Ends” is any indication, this new chapter might be their most honest and daring one yet.
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