Mondo Maleficum, by Erotic Secrets of Pompeii

Mondo Maleficum

by Erotic Secrets of Pompeii

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Only Monsters An incredible and strange ride through an artsy, punky, carnival-like experience. The sound is full and funky, like a gothic Franz Ferdinand blended with bizarro pastiches; like a brit-punk Modest Mouse if all they wrote about was Greek mythology. Truly unique, very fun!

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The debut album from Erotic Secrets of Pompeii - MONDO MALEFICUM - pressed on a limited run of clear red 140g vinyl, with a 2-page full-colour insert and a digital download of the album.

This also includes early-bird digital download of the unreleased track 'The Unstitching of Everything'.

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1.	Osiris at the Large Hadron Collider 03:08	buy track
2.	The Wheel, the Spade, the Stars in Motion 04:15	buy track
3.	Faustina Filmed in Psychorama 02:34	buy track
4.	Venus Ascending 04:47	buy track
5.	Bad Weather at Beachy Head 03:32	buy track
6.	Utterly Rudderless 03:20	buy track
7.	Crocodilian 05:02	buy track
8.	Tenderness Has Failed Me 03:32	buy track
9.	Auguries and Auguries 03:11	buy track
10.	The Unstitching of Everything 03:10	buy track

about

"Album of the week, album of the year and possibly the decade and indisputably, Mondo Maleficum is monumental, magnificent and a masterpiece."

- Louder Than War

"They’re destined to be this generation’s Talking Heads."

- Amplify The Noise

MONDO

(noun)
Italian for ‘world’, used as a short-hand for Mondo films - a subgenre of exploitation films usually depicting sensational topics (e.g. Mondo Cane, Mondo Bizarro).

(adjective)
Something very striking or remarkable.
Very large or great in amount or number.

MALEFICUM

(adjective)
Latin: ‘of black magic’, ‘nefarious’, ‘noxious’, ‘wicked’ etc.

Welcome to a world where everything frays at the seams and burns forever madly, a world beneath the ashes of which, love and imagination blossom uncontrollably.

Crows flood the sky in their thousands, botflies are blotting out the sun, men are turning into crocodiles. Welcome to the world of MONDO MALEFICUM - the debut album from Erotic Secrets of Pompeii.

Released on 25th Jan 2024, and available on all digital streaming platforms + translucent blood-red vinyl, MONDO MALEFICUM is an album of agitated art-rock death-trip soliloquies, where ESOP flaunt their diabolical pageantry while conjuring up gratuitous myths. Behold a new age of revelations where the secret to survival is to embrace your true authentic self, to accept death and be reborn in a weird, beautiful image of YOU.

Consume these ten hellish fruits and be changed forever!

credits

released January 25, 2024

Thomas Hawtin - vocals, lyrics
Tom Hackwell - guitar, Moog synthesiser, backing vocals
Julian Port - bass, backing vocals
Sean Jones - guitar
Jake Cheesman - drums

Produced and mixed by Tom Hackwell
Recorded at Humm Studio

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Erotic Secrets of Pompeii Bristol, UK

Apocalyptic art rock from the forbidden zone 🐐🛸🦷🔪⚰

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shows

May 8

The Continental

Preston, UK
May 15

Le Pub

Newport, UK
May 16

The Horn

St. Albans, UK
May 19

The Star Inn

Guildford, UK
May 21

The Joiners

Southampton, UK
May 22

The Junction

Plymouth, UK
May 23

The Star Inn

Guildford, UK

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