Hooded Menace — Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
78/100: Finnish death/doom in all its melancholic heaviness.
78/100: Finnish death/doom in all its melancholic heaviness.
79/100: Swedish gothic/doom unfolds its majestic melancholy.
79/100: the Americans' cavernous, old-school death metal reeks of the crypt.
86/100: Faroese death/doom reaches an overwhelming solemnity.
The patriarchs of cavernous death metal do not falter: 85/100 for a record of absolute darkness.