Finnish death-doom band Hooded Menace are streaming their new album Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration in full a day before its official release. The record drops tomorrow, October 3, via Season of Mist, but fans can already immerse themselves in all seven tracks today on the label’s YouTube channel.
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For more than two decades, Hooded Menace have remained a pillar of the underground, balancing old-school heaviness with constant reinvention. Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration proves the band are far from resting in the crypt. Neon synths blaze through opener “Twilight Passages,” galloping rhythms drive “Lugubrious Dance,” and cello lines haunt the closing epic “Into Haunted Oblivion.” Even a blood-soaked cover of Duran Duran’s “Save a Prayer” finds its way into their repertoire.
The band continues to channel classic horror and traditional heavy metal while expanding the boundaries of death-doom. Cover artist Wes Benscoter once again brings their vision to life with a ghoulish rendering of the Blind Dead, and critics are already praising the album.
With Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration, Hooded Menace summon a new era of horror-tinged death-doom—grim, inventive, and impossible to bury.