Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 11th September 2012
Label: Relapse Records
Track Listing
1) Vortex Macabre 10:44
2) Effigies Of Evil 5:36
3) In The Dead We Dwell 7:50
4) Curses Scribed In Gore 6:14
5) Crumbling Insanity 6:32
6) Summoned Into Euphoric Madness 5:42
7) Evoken Vulgarity 6:48
8) Retribution
in Eternity 1:45
Total running time 50:56
Bio
Hooded menace
formed in Joensuu, Finland in 2007. Originally a two piece they set about
making the most crusty horror doom/death imaginable, and they did. They
achieved all they set out to do on their debut, Fulfil the curse, on Razorback
Records in 2008. Hooded Menace
play Death Doom Metal with a penchant for horror themes and samples.
Current Line Up
Lasse Pyykko- guitars bass and vocals
Pekka Koskelo- drums
Teemu Hannonen- guitars
Discography
The Eyeless Horde Demo 200
Fulfil The Curse Full length 2008
Hooded menace/Anima Morte Split 2010
Never cross the dead Full length 2010
Hooded menace/Coffins Split
2010
Hooded menace/Ilsa Split 2011
Asphyx/Hooded Menace Split2011
Necrotic monuments EP
2012
Hooded menace/Horse latitudes Split 2012
Effigies Of Evil Full length 2012
Review
We start off
with Vortex Macabre Immediately I am meat hooked, hung upside down to drain
out, then I am dragged outside through
the woods (possibly to tenderise) by a beastly riff that grinds and
chews it’s way through the heathland. Slow of pace, heavy as sin and writhing
and grinding, Hooded Menace always have reminded me of the most brutally catchy
moments that Sweden’s Dismember ever
did. The vocals are gruff and demonic and perfect for this kind of death metal,
doomed sludge. Fucking great.
Title track
Effigies Of Evil comes round slow and bitchin', really nice deep drum sounds
especially when Pekka rolls them. I defy you to not nod your head along to any
of these tracks on ‘Effigies’. The two guitars take it in turns to wow you with
their heavy hooks.
Definitely my
favourite intro sample in a long time ‘In The Dead We Dwell’ has David Warbeck
as Anton addressing a frightened crowd on how to kill vampires, in the hammer
classic Twins Of Evil, yes indeed I got caught reciting this aloud in Tesco’s
yesterday!.
Curses
Scribed In Gore is another highlight song with deep throat vocals and the
duelling guitars again blow me away with so many leads and licks stomping drums
pummel through depicting total bloody evil. Vincent Price introduces us to
Crumbling Insanity and I find it hard to decide my favourite track on this
album, they are all equally good as there is definitely no fillers on
Effigies.
There is a lot
of crusty doom bands around at the moment but I see Hooded Menace as leaders in
this field, with three full lengths and umpteen split EP’s and they show no
signs of running out of ideas. Summoned Into Euphoric Madness has that
fantastic hook of an intro that the band manage to come up with every time, you
really need to hear this album to believe what they are capable of.
Evoken
Vulgarity opens up with more epic death riffs only to wind down slowly for the
last minute as broken glass shatters on the chapel floor leaving you breathless
and vulnerable. And that leaves us with 1:45 of Retribution in eternity as an
Outro for those of us damned. This is proper horror.
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