Hooded Menace Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration Review

November 9, 2025
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Hooded Menace

Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration

Season Of Mist

2025


Hooded Menace has always been the Doom/Death juggernaut lurking in the shadows, and with “Lachrymose: Monuments of Obscuration”, they remind the world why they’re untouchable in their niche. From the first crushing riffs, you know you’re in for a full-on submersion into the band’s murkiest depths.


This time out the band taps into the 80’s Metal style for guitar harmonies and riffs – it feels familiar, but it’s new except for the band’s cover of Duran Duran’s “Save A Prayer”.  Tackling that tune took some serious guts, but the payoff is legitimate ear candy for fans of the original tune. Overall, the vocals on this album are cavernous, guttural, and utterly merciless, like a priest chanting over a grave that’s still open. Every growl, every roar, drives the songs home.


The pacing of the album is excellent. It doesn’t rush, and it doesn’t need to, it just bulldozes the listener with one melodic riff after another. Each song is allowed to breathe insuring to leave a mark on you.


“Lachrymose: Monuments of Obscuration” isn’t an album you throw on lightly. It’s the kind of record that lingers in your psyche long after it’s over. It respects the slow burn, the suffocating atmosphere, and the raw, emotional weight of Metal.


Standout Tracks – “Save A Prayer”, “Into Haunted Oblivion” and “Portrait Without a Face”.


~Black Angel

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