The Angel of Death Victorious, commonly known as the Haserot Angel, is a bronze sculpture located in the Cleveland Heights, Ohio portion of Lake View Cemetery. It depicts an angel seated on a polished marble base holding an inverted torch, and was created by artist Herman Matzen. The sculpture has become a tourist destination in part for the black "tears" apparent on the angel’s face resulting from oxidation of the metal over time.
Description The statue was commissioned by industrialist Francis Henry Haserot, president of the Haserot Company of Cleveland, after the death of his wife in 1919. Herman Matzen, an Ohio-based sculptor from Denmark was commissioned to create the grave marker, which was initially made in clay. The angel has in recent years become a haunted attraction, with reports of tourists seeing, hearing, or otherwise experiencing strange paranormal phenomena.
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The cover of the extended play "Open the Mind to Discomfort" (2015), by the metalcore/sludge metal band Will Haven, from Sacramento, California. The cover of the studio album titled Reluctant Hero by American heavy metal supergroup band Killer Be Killed, from Los Angeles, California. The cover was selected after a declaration by Max Cavalera in an interview with Revolver; this was in a period where he was looking for "black metal" images through National Geographic magazines.
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