Artist: Obsequiae
Title: The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Cat #: SPIN122
Release Year: 2019/2024
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak
Special Attributes: Foil stamped digipak re-issue

The Palms of Sorrowed Kings is the third full-length studio album from the American melodic black metal band Obsequiae.

In medieval Latin and ecclesiastical Latin, the plural "obsequiae" means the whole of rites performed in connection with a catholic funeral; the officium defunctorum (including the requiem mass and several special prayers) and the rites of the funeral itself.

A new dawn rises over the castle ruins for the third time in a decade. Obsequiae once more lower the gates and emerge from the keep, to regale the townsfolk with tales of another age via heroic hymns of majesty and high adventure on The Palms Of Sorrowed Kings.

The most immersive and hyper-focused album from Obsequiae to date, this album features a heightened sense of rhythmic definition, greater care in the depth of layers and a shimmering clarity that elevates the uniquely realized character of a band unlike any other. Sweeping and vast, the otherworldly scope of the guitars, the anachronistic harp interludes, the percussive precision and the range of ancient melodic beauty open portals to the immemorial.

An album singularly concerned with creating a captivating world to become willfully lost in, The Palms Of Sorrowed Kings sets itself on a path that few now trod but a realm that Obsequiae tower over like the noblest kings.

Recommended if you like: Rotting Christ, Agalloch, Majesties, Sacramentum, Panopticon

Track Listing:

1. L’autrier m’en aloie
2. Ceres in Emerald Streams
3. In the Gardens of Hyacinths
4. Palästinalied
5. The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
6. Morrigan
7. Per tropo fede
8. Lone Isle
9. Asleep in the Bracken
10. Quant voi la flor novele
11. Emanations Before the Pythia
12. In hoc anni circulo