Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

With a proclivity for pulverizing slo-mo riffs and lengthy compositions, Finnish doom dealers Hooded Menace plunge into the abyss on their fifth album. Propelled by churning grooves, mournfully melodic guitars, and a love for the cult Spanish horror series *Blind Dead*, anguish-ridden epics \"Sempiternal Grotesqueries,\" \"Cathedral of Labyrinthine Darkness,” and \"Charnel Reflections\" heave and moan under the sepulchral incantations of vocalist Harri Kuokkanen. The band goes instrumental—and partially acoustic—on the stately closer \"Black Moss.\"

Finland's HOODED MENACE make their long-awaited return with their new full-length 'Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed'. Their most ominous, dark, and mature album to date, "Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed" showcases the Finns at the height of their collective powers. Tracks such as "Sempiternal Grotesqueries" and "Cathedral of the Labyrinthine Darkness" explode out of the depths, where cavernous death metal collides with gut-wrenching doom. HOODED MENACE expertly weave dreary funereal atmospheres with melodically driven songwriting, which only adds to the crushing album's emotional gravitas. 'Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed' is one of the heaviest albums of 2018, and proves HOODED MENACE to be at the forefront of the genre. Doom awaits!

Hooded Menace are a beast of a particular breed that stand apart from much of their death-doom brethren. From their inception, this Finnish...

Finland’s Hooded Menace return with a brand new collection of doom/death metal in the form of Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed (Season of Mist). While there’s that consistent element of drone to be found in their work, there are plenty of times where the band shift gears to deliver hefty moments of

A review of Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed by Hooded Menace, available January 26th worldwide via Seasons of Mist.

There was something inherently magical about the doom/death sound of the '90s.

Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed review: Familiar, yet distant. Hooded Menace release their most dynamic album to date.