“"Laws of Intrigue" opens with an elegiac couplet designed to please, but it’s just a pop feint. Screature—a delightfully apt neologism—uses the conventions of forbidding, macabre rock not as a vessel for hooks but as the dark means and the dour end. The Sacramento foursome self-released its eponymous debut in 2013, snaring a co-sign from the city’s gloomy maiden Chelsea Wolfe. But where the leaden”
