Hooded Menace Announce New Album

Posted on August 5, 2025

More information about Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration

Over the past 20 odd years, Hooded Menace have stood not as a bridge but a pillar between two different realms of underground metal. The cultishly beloved band’s upcoming seventh album is still bound by a morbid obsession with classic horrors. But on Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration, Finland’s stewards of death-doom remain far from stuck in their ways. Lead single “Portrait Without a Face” cranks up the neon-soaked nightmares while digging out a grave new surprise from under their long-sleeve.

Watch the classic horror video for “Portrait Without a Face” on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/eylIsTVj5U0?si=gYYyBxqCKE5gvh0p

Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration comes out October 3, 2025 on Season of Mist.

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Available formats
Digital download
CD Digipack
12″ Vinyl (Black)
12″ Colored Vinyl (Red)
12″ Colored Vinyl (Purple)
12″ Colored Vinyl (Crystal clear with red and blue marble)
12″ Liquid-filled Vinyl (Slime yellow)

Hooded Menace continue to pave a harrowing path for undying metal legions who crave creepier, crushing tempos. The band’s new single opens with drummer Pekka Koskelo pounding like death’s door. Their flesh-eating muse still looms over Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration. Cover artist Wes Benscoter recreates director Amando de Ossorio’s the Blind Dead in all of the film’s ghoulish glory. But the album hammers home the influence of ’80s heavy metal that was rung in by previous LP The Tritonus Bell. With its conspiratorial web of leads, “Portrait Without a Face” bears a glowing resemblance to King Diamond.The lasting influence of Candlemass and Paradise Lost hasn’t vanished without a trace, but Hooded Menace continue to break the mold that they’ve set for death-doom. While the bone-crushing riffs of founding member Lasse Pyykkö cement the rock-solid foundation beneath Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration, even he was surprised when sculpting the album’s lead single. Like an echo from beyond the grave, what should appear within “Portrait Without a Face” but the haunted moan of a cello.

“Sucked into the realm of sweet damnation“. Vocalist Harri Kuokkanen growls deep into the dead of night, as if lured down a darkened hallway by former live bassist Antii Poutanen’s sorrowful string saws.

The video for “Portrait Without a Face” was directed by Tekla Valy with additional footage filmed by Mikko Saastamoinen.

More praise for Hooded Menace

“Hooded Menace have consistently succeeded in boasting a bludgeon of unruly extremity” – Angry Metal Guy

“As always, hail Lasse” – BangerTV

“After the riffs fade into the cavern’s ancient silence, the shrouded specters turn and watch Pyykkö, a hoodie casting shadows over his eyes. In unison, they nod in approval. Fade to black” – Decibel

“…it’s good to see metal’s customary dance with past being respected and admired, but also put to enlightened use” – Metal Injection

“Hooded Menace have figured out how to do death-doom with honest-to-Elder Gods hooks, and it fits them like an executioner’s glove” – New Noise

“The have gone above and beyond by not just being satisfied with being heavy, but writing good songs that challenge their playing and the listener” – No Clean Singing

“If horror/ doom / death is a sub-genre, Hooded Menace is undoubtedly its master” – Last Rites

“…they have proven risks can pay off” – Distorted Sound

“Hooded Menace’s approach to death and doom gives listeners an array of hard-hitting and darkly sublime cuts” – Treble

“Hooded Menace are back to put on a death-doom clinic” – Everything Is Noise

“Hooded Menace cement their status at the forefront of modern death/doom and prove Pyykkö’s songwriting prowess once again” – Toilet Ov Hell

“…these Finns started and perfected this modern death/doom sound that everyone has been aping for the past decade, so it is always good to see the originators back in action” – The Sleeping Shaman

“They manage to separate themselves with a more diverse sound that constantly changes and avoids the generic death metal templates” – MetalBite

“Death-Doom’s most consistent band” – The Metal Meltdown

“These guys know how to write devastatingly killer dual guitar work” – Forgemaster Metal (Best Doom Metal Albums of 2021)

Twilight Passages (1:04)
Pale Masquearade (7:50)
Portrait Without a Face (7:15)
Daughters of Lingering Pain (7:25)
Lugubrious Dance (7:20)
Save a Prayer (6:12)
Into Haunted Oblivion (9:47)

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HOODED MENACE Nominated for Emma Gaala (Finnish Grammy)

Posted on December 15, 2021

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HOODED MENACE stream entire new album in advance of release date

Posted on August 27, 2021

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Posted on July 26, 2021

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Posted on June 22, 2021

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Posted on May 19, 2021

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