"an old-school bleeder that festers and oozes and totally fucking slays." --MetalSucks.net "a severely heavy and coarse affair, dripping with melancholy and misanthropy.“- CVLT Nation "one of the most intimidating and unforgiving metal albums of the year" - Decibel "all shivers, chills, and dreadful feelings, just the way it is supposed to be"- Blabbermouth.net
Finland’s HOODED MENACE return with Darkness Drips Forth, their most gruesome work to date. Recorded and mixed by Chris Fielding (Electric Wizard, Primordial, etc) the band employ a new approach on their latest effort, expanding their writing across four mammothly dense tracks that nearly all exceed ten minutes a piece. Cavernous vocals preside over Lasse Pyykko's rocky riffs, while the band’s unshakable rhythmic core provides a grim backbone for the record. The hint of melody HOODED MENACE sought back in their earliest days has fully blossomed into an essential element of the band’s music; Darkness Drips Forth is as melodic as it is devastating and as emotionally disquieting as it is thematically stirring. Funereal, deliberate, and unhurried, Darkness Drips Forth is sure to be an essential acquisition for fans of crushing doom and old-school death metal alike. Hooded Menace deliver a gruesomely glorious treat just in time for Halloween!
Recommended if you like: Bolt Thrower, Coffins, Disma, Asphyx, Dead Congregation, Serpentine Path, Winter ...
TRACKLIST CD/ LP:
1. Blood for the Burning Oath/Dungeons of the Disembodied
2. Elysium of Dripping Death
3. Ashen with Solemn Decay
4. Beyond Deserted Flesh