
Hooded Menace has become one of the leading names in the present day death metal genre. The slow doomy death metal by Hooded Menace has conquered the catacombs of the underground. Their third opus called EFFIGIES OF EVIL has just seen the light of day and received tremendous reviews. The mastermind of Hooded Menace, Lasse Pyykkö, sheds more light on the new opus and how Hooded Menace has been welcomed amongst the death metal audience.
Interview and pictures by Arto Lehtinen
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Posted in 2012 | Comments (0)

Back in the late 80s and early 90’s death metal ruled metal in the catacombs of the underground. The Finnish death metal scene was one of kind unique offering tremendous bands from every town around Finland. Every underground death metal maniac still recalls with tears in their eyes when death metal gigs were packed and how demo tapes got traded and underground DIY magazines were informative and of high quality. How about the bands back then; well the list is endless! Let the name dropping start: Demigod, Convulse, Amorphis, Abhorrence, Belial, Mythos, Purtenance, Funebre, Xysma, Disgrace, Mordicus, Purtenance and so on. Many years have passed by since those days. Most of bands have vanished and some of them are more or less activate or some were catapulted to another dimension of success. Does Finnish death metal offer something new, and above all, more than newer bands of the genre? Of course it does, even though the Finnish death metal scene lives and well. Believe or not. The scene is awesome and tremendous as the bands of the present day sound brutal and vicious. The article of the Finnish Death Metal scene gives a half dissection of six great death metal bands. The interviewed members of the following bands are :
Ville : Maveth
Samu : Swallowed
Tommi : Stench Of Decay
Roni Ä : Lie In Ruins and Neutron Hammer
Roni S : Lie In Ruins
Lasse : Hooded Menace
Let Death Metal reign
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Tags: Hooded Menace, Lie In Ruins, Maveth, Neutron Hammer, Stench Of Decay, Swallowed
Posted in 2011 | Comments (0)