Tag: Hooded Menace
Best Of 2025: Dan Obstkrieg – Have A Wonderful Day
Ranking junk: we love it. And yes, folks, usually I’d love to whip up some fanciful theory for you about how the human propensity to rank things is evolutionarily adaptive instead of decadent, but there …
Best Of 2021 – Dan Obstkrieg: A Map Of All Our Foolishness
Friends, if we’re being honest, I probably spend less than half of my overall music listening time with heavy metal. (This is what they might call a “reverse straw man,” whereby I provide you with …
Best Of 2018 – Chris Sessions: Are You Slimy Enough For 2018?
ON THE YEAR Last year at this time I was angry. Constant anger starts to numb the spirit. You feel tired rather than restless. So you stop paying attention, focus back in on the minute …
Best Of 2018 – Zach Duvall: Confessions Of A Cornfed Crackpot
Greetings, you husks. This year, instead of some State of the Scene Address, we’re going to talk about consensus in music fandom, and how it doesn’t really exist. Yes, seeing the same albums top every …
Best Of 2018 – Andrew Edmunds: Clever Title?! I Barely KNOW Her Title!
2018 was a very strange year for me. I started the year with an intracranial hemorrhage (I’m fully recovered now, thanks) and ended the year with a marriage (she may never fully recover, thanks). Through …
Hooded Menace – Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed Review
You know that old axiom about not fixing what isn’t broken? Well, it’s a good one, of course, and usually true. But not always. Finnish doomsters Hooded Menace have never been broken, that much is …
Oh Hi, 2018: Our Most Anticipated Albums, Part 1
Welcome to 2018. Welcome? Is anything really welcoming these days? Isn’t the slow crawl of time just another reminder of our mortality and the fragility of society? Didn’t you just come in here to read …
Hooded Menace – Darkness Drips Forth Review
Nostalgia is big business. In the time it takes you to read this, probably a dozen bands have formed out of nothing other than the desperate urge to make something new. Their songs – and …