VESSELES puts Valira’s own vocals at the center of Home (Reclaimed)

November 14, 2026

Valira’s own vocals shape Home (Reclaimed), the forthcoming VESSELES album scheduled for March 26, 2027. The symphonic black metal project places its founder’s search for belonging within a demonic narrative, combining piano-driven leads, orchestral arrangements and dissonant passages.

The announcement describes the record as an exploration of what home means to someone who feels they are not from this world. Valira’s vocal performances carry that account of origins and purpose, with melodic sections and harmonized verses among the changes detailed across the album.

The nine-song sequence opens with “Flesh Throne (Reclaimed),” introducing The Beneath, the album’s setting. Its narrative concerns Valira reclaiming power over humanity, accompanied by melodic vocal sections. “Eternally Within Us (Reclaimed)” turns to a birthing ritual in that world, using Latin mantras, symphonic arrangements and newly harmonized verses.

“The Beneath (Reclaimed)” follows with a longing for home. Within the project’s demonic mythology, the song presents misanthropy and the desire to torture humans as traits ingrained from birth; its lyrics also reference “Eternally Within Us.” The separate title track, “Home (Reclaimed),” questions whether Valira can find the place they seek. Fully sung by Valira, it foreshadows later songs by incorporating their titles into its lyrics.

The piano piece “They Wither… (Reclaimed)” answers “Wretched,” a piano piece from the previous release. Exploring demonic origins and authority over humanity, it leads into “Until They Are Dust (Reclaimed),” which develops its musical progressions. That song connects growing self-confidence with empowerment, while its vocal melodies describe The Beneath’s origins as “a horrific cursed sludge” that consumes humans and births a new generation of demons.

The later tracks move from recognition of those origins toward difficulty finding peace. “Scriptures Etched Into the Mind’s Pillars (Reclaimed)” draws on classic symphonic black metal, with Valira’s own voice delivering a narrative about internal turmoil and barriers built for self-protection. Hollow, dissonant piano accompanies the loss, loneliness and alienation described in “Perpetual Chasm of Black Mirrors (Reclaimed).”

Closer “This Is Not Home (Reclaimed)” brings the narrative to Valira’s decision to bring home into this world, assume leadership and summon their kind. Its melancholic vocal passages shift from pain and sorrow toward rage and wrath.

Valira Nyvran composed the music and handles vocals, guitars, orchestrations and lyrics, alongside bassist Ron Graves and drummer Nikolas Brön. Antonio Giardina contributes session piano, and The Vicken Studios Orchestra supplies choir chants on “Eternally Within Us (Reclaimed).” Nick Loiacono produced, mixed and mastered the album at Fang Studios in San Mateo, California. Mark Erskine created the cover artwork.

Founded in 2023, VESSELES serves as Valira’s artistic outlet for identity, survival, transformation and reclaiming power. The project combines guitars and symphonic textures, with Valira performing both lead and backing vocals in the studio and onstage. Its conceptual identity encompasses demon, exile and survivor.

The debut EP I Am A Demon appeared in 2024, exploring identity dysphoria, rage and revelation. The debut full-length Home, released at the turn of 2026, addressed identity, belonging and the mythology of a demon cast into the human world.

The announcement identifies “Eternally Within Us (Reclaimed)” and “Until They Are Dust (Reclaimed)” as the only tracks currently cleared for radio and podcast play.