Hooded Menace / Algoma - Split LP

Limited edition and another proof that their Finns still make the ugliest (therefore best!) doom/death around… Except that “Celestial Dissection” doesn’t just reassess the band as one of the finest purveyors of the genre, it also marks the first time that a HM recording features the vocals of their last recruit, HORSE LATITUDES’ Harri Kuokkanen who joined the band in 2016: “yes, it´s the first recording with our new vocalist Harri” confirms their mainman Lasse Pyykkö. “The song has definitely Hooded Menace written all over it, but with Harri´s powerful and passionate vocals there´s a new edge in the sound. The track was nearly completely recorded by ourselves at our rehearsal room, and I did all the mixing with some help from our guitarist Teemu. So we´re are pretty proud of it in that sense too!”
 
This time their partner in crime are Algoma from Canada who contribute with the 7 minutes plus dirge “Failed Stunt” for their second split of the year, after one with CHRONOBOT on DEAD BEAT MEDIA. Their bass player and vocalist Kevin Campbell has been a friend of Pyykkö since the “very early days of Hooded Menace. So this split is a great opportunity to sort of celebrate our friendship, but most importantly it´s a release between two bands with the sound of their own weltering in all things heavy, doomy, deathly and sludgy.” So there you go: two heavy-as-fuck bands, two even heavier tracks and another fine split by yours truly, DOOMENTIA RECORDS of course!