{"id":19221,"date":"2026-09-22T22:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/?p=19221"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:47:19","slug":"news-abel-gomez-of-lament-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/news-abel-gomez-of-lament-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Abel Gomez of Lament Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With sadness, and certainly with more than a little shock, I heard the news of the passing of Abel Gomez, the frontman and longest-running member of the Mexican death metal legends, Lament. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lamentbandmx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The announcement can be found on the band\u2019s Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not long ago, just last year in fact, when I got to <a href=\"https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/feature-lament-band-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview Abel<\/a>. As anyone who may have, even in passing, checked out my writing here at Heaven\u2019s Metal knows, I\u2019m a big fan of Lament. For me, it was a tremendous, and humbling, privilege to be able to email back and forth with Abel. Though I did not know him well, he impressed me as someone very driven by his artistic vision, but most of all, by his dedication to and love of Jesus Christ. It was the overarching theme that I saw weaving its way through his words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With his passing, the Christian metal world in particular loses one of its most visionary artists. No one sounded quite like Lament. Mexico\u2019s finest were a progressive death metal band like no other, constantly shifting from album to album and exploring different stylistic approaches, yet always sounding like Lament. <em>Tears of a Leper<\/em> remains an absolute classic of the death metal genre, a seamless mix of elegant acoustic passages with grinding brutality, and <em>Through the Reflection<\/em> is still an all-time personal favourite record of mine when it comes to Christian death metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hmlament2-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hmlament2-1024x1024-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hmlament2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hmlament2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hmlament2-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hmlament2.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A final album from the band is, from what I can tell, still possibly set to release at some point in the future. Entitled <em>Determination<\/em>, it is being touted as a return-to-form style record that goes back to the older sounds of the band. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delotroladometal.com.ar\/2026\/09\/19\/we-want-to-return-to-our-roots-from-the-first-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to <em>Del Otro Lado Metal<\/em>,<\/a> the album will also feature guest vocal work from the band\u2019s original (and most brutal) vocalist, Marco Perez.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information concerning this sad news can be found on the band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lamentbandmx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With sadness, and certainly with more than a little shock, I heard the news 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