Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration

Description

First pressing on black vinyl.
Black vinyl, 12" (33 rpm), in a jacket with a printed innersleeve.
First pressing of 800 copies worldwide.
As they enter their third decade, Hooded Menace don't position themselves as a bridge, but as a pillar between two distinct universes of underground metal. The band's seventh album is still rooted in a cult obsession with horror classics. But with Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration, these guardians of death-doom are far from set in their ways.
The Templars still watch over Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration. “Pale Masquerade” invokes the carnivorous muse of director Amando de Ossorio with a fresh breath of bone-crushing growls and tomb-reeking death grunts. While the lasting influence of Candlemass and Paradise Lost has not vanished without ghostly traces, Hooded Menace continue to break the mould. Fans of old-school music will headbang with delight upon hearing a pop gem like "Save a Prayer", imbued with the band's characteristic bloody terror.
Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration hammers home the 80s heavy metal influence present in Hooded Menace's The Tritonus Bell. As if in a trance, the drums gallop amidst searing, neon-drenched leads. MicroPitching and other effects are not the band's only assets. What should emerge from the swirling double bass under the first single "Portrait Without a Face" is the deeply haunting wail of a cello.
With Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration, Hooded Menace casts a ghostly gaze upon death-doom.
For fans of PARADISE LOST, AUTOPSY, MERCYFUL FATE.
Artwork by Wes Benscoter.
Tracklist:
Side A:
Twilight Passages
Pale Masquerade
Portrait Without a Face
Daughters of Lingering Pain
Side B:
Lugubrious Dance
Save a Prayer
Into Haunted Oblivion