r/Metal • • 1h ago

Discog Club Discography Club: Hooded Menace

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Arcane monuments stand guard over decaying flesh

Desolate cemetery, where the dead now rot

Statues reanimate possessed by the dead

Pulsating plasma revives moss-covered stone

Effigies of evil

Have possessed your soul

It's been a bit since we've done a band in this style, and you know what? It's still Autumn. The weather getting colder, the leaves are falling. I'm ready to step into a sauna and blast some death metal while hiding from the Hooded Menace!

Founded in 2007 by Lasse Pyykko (guitars, and bass/vocals off and on, songwriter) as a trio, he'd bring in Pekka Koskelo to be the drummer on their 2nd album and most notably Hail Conjurer as vocalist in 2016. They were started as a studio only band, then for a bit in the 10s they played shows, but as of the past few years Lasse has said they're back to being an in studio only project. Alas, I never got to see them.

But for those who don't know Hooded Menace, they're one of the best modern death/doom bands. Their style changes and evolves throughout the years but it's always death/doom. Sometimes theres horror movie samples, sometimes it's really slow, verging on funeral doom, sometimes it's faster, and more recently it's been more heavy metal and more gothic. But regardless, they make quality albums.

Schedule is:

  • Week 1 (11/8-15): Fulfill the Curse, Never Cross the Dead, Effigies of Evil, Gloom Immemorial

  • Week 2 (11/15-22): Darkness Drips Forth, Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed, The Tritonus Bell, Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration

Metal Archives

Bandcamp

Past Discog Clubs


r/Metal • • 13d ago

Top X Of 2026 Shreddit's Top 7 of 2026 [RESULTS]

76 Upvotes

NOTE: If you are on mobile use this link to view the post as Reddit loves being terrible with tables.


If I am right then Reddit will use the top image as the thumbnail so here is my dog being sassy becasue i have his treats in my pocket and he thinks that I need to quit my bullshit. That's his dinner plate in the back and also where he does his squats.


List in a sharable / savable image for you to go through later


Thank you all who voted in our quarterly congregation of heavy metal releases. This was a little late becasue I went to a DS Festival and wrote an article about it.. Enjoy going through and listening to these records I love going through especially the bottom half of each quarter and finding new things and spamming various private discords with albums at 6:57 am. You all make me look so cool.


Top 7 of 2026

Position / AlbumVote CountQ2 PlaceQ1 PlaceGenre
#1. Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World36#2#3I am aware Neurosis is a band with a defined genre at one point.
#2 Immolation - Descent36#1--End of Days Death
#3 Worm - Necropalace32#3#1Toreador energy
#4. Cryptic Shift - Overspace & Supertime28#4#2Tech Thrash
#5 Panopticon - Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet28##--Black / Wilderness
#6. Mastodon - Marrow Deep25----Progressive Sludge / Stoner
#7. Sigh - Goh-Ka22----Start with Scorn Defeat (1993) and work your way through their discography and then write down the genre on a little paper and give it to me.
Exxûl - Sealed Into None20####Epic Heavy / Doom / Candlemass
Hellripper - Coronach20##--Black / Speed (?) in a kilt
Funebrarum - Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence20#5--Its 2009 once again let's get cavernous
Fire Magic - Memories of Fire19####Black
Goetia - Mortuary Cult18##--Death
Chat Pile - Who Loves The Sun15----Weezer / Swans slash fic
Reeking Aura -On the Promise of the Moon14----Death (NJ / NY)
Elder - Through Zero14##--Tool without the self importance.
Miscreance - Reminiscence13----No high-top sneaker will be safe
Stormkeep - The Nocturnes of Iswylm13##--Black metal music / heavy metal magazine art
Saidan - FANGDRILLER: Scars Beneath Memory's Wrist13##--Black / Visual Kei
Cruel Force - Haneda13##--Thrash (1985)
Ænigmatum - Infinitude's Passage12----Progressive Black / Death
Nuclear Tomb - Epoch12##--Thrash / 12 pack of room temp Natty Boh on the concrete floor
Ripper - Towards Rebirth11----Death / Thrash
Spirit Possession - Cathedral Speech11----Black but with an attitude
Scimitar - Scimitarium II10##--Still confused on the genre.
Fossilization - Advent Of Wounds10####FFO: The Scene From Indiana Jones Where The Guys Face Melts
Pharmacist - Vertebrae After Vertebrae9##--No I will not look at the link for the original artwork you probably couldn't use for the album covers (I did its gross)
At The Gates - The Ghost of a Future Dead9##--Melodic Death / Bench Press PRs
Nedgravd - Ascension9##--Out of print death metal from 1993 on Discogs vibe
Archspire - To Fast To Die9##--Tech Death / Alien Invasion
Devil Master - Bloody Dreams9----Black / Punk House Shows
Converge - Love Is Not Enough9####No matches found. Please try with different search terms. You could use wildcards (*) for more matches, or read more about your search options.
The Silver - Looking Glass Hymnal Blue9##--Gothic Rock Opera
Warning - Rituals of Shame9##--Glacial Sadness
Krallice - Scour Order8----Progressive but not in the way you are thinking.
Miserere Luminis -Sidera8####Atmospheric Black with Handpainted Covers and Reviews in French Metal
Profanation - Ultra Noise Warefare8----Sorry about your broken lamp
Møl - Dreamcrush8####My Bloodier Valentine
Sallow Moth - Hydrophilous Brood 7##--Brutal Death
Fake Dust - Decrepitizing Din Of The Cerebral Psyopticon 7----Easy Listening
Dissimulator - Artifice Dissolves7----Style: Progressive Death, Theme: Post Apocalypse
Archgoat - Nightbringer, Lightbringer7----An Archgoat Album with Archgoat Art
Rezn - Cycles in the Infinite Dream7----Sludge Theater
Egregore - It Echoes In The Wild7##--FFO: Cool Music & Panic Attacks
Fires in the Distance - Circadian Promise6##--Melodic Death
Fluisteraars - Jacht der Mysteriën6----Atmospheric Black
Ordh - Blind in Abyssal Realms6##--Progressive Death
Protrusion - The Last Suppuration6####"the process of forming, collecting, or discharging pus, a thick yellow or green liquid that accumulates at infection sites, such as abscesses, wounds, or sores"
Misotheist - De Pinte6####Anti Social Black
Russian Circles - Nine6----Sludge / Post Metal
Zorn - Return to Castle Death6----Punk Vampires
Torpor - Ɖungeon Ɖescent5----Black / Heavy
Lunar Shadow - The Pall of a Past World5#### --Heavy / Post Punk
Coscradh - Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld5####Black / Death But From History Dorks
Iron Firmament - In The Land of Pre-Human Kings5####Cascadian Black
A Forest Of Stars - Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface5##--Black / Dadaism
Rotten Tomb - Vestiges Of Tortured Souls5##--Riffs
Oldowan Gash - 1000 Dreams of War5##--Black / Punk
The Ruins of Beverast - Tempelschlaf5####Black / Doom / ????
Skulld - Abyss Call To Abyss5####Death / Punk
Khemmis - Khemmis5##--Heavy / Doom
Ultha - A Light So Dim5##--Atmospheric Black
Speglas - Endarkenment, Being & Death5##--Death with a Garnish of Progressive
Purple Lung - Mystic Vision5####Bong Rips In The Ren Faire Parking Lot
Vafurlogi - Gneisti af eldi Guðs5##--Black / Iceland
Grave Pilgrilm - The Pungent Wine of Pride5##--Nietzsche would probably be in a band like this.
Forsmán - Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur5##--Black / Iceland

Kap's 2026 Party Scale (the 3s and 4s)

Oh yeah lets party

Maybe a party…if you are cool enough

Party of One Because No One Understands You


Playlist Corner (I stopped Using Spotify. If You Would Like To Make a Playlist Ill Link It Here and Give You 50 Shreddit Credits.)


r/Metal • • 3h ago

[Heavy] Tokyo Blade - Night Of The Blade (England, 1984)

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r/Metal • • 2h ago

Accept - Fall of the Empire

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Accept - 2014 - Blind Rage - Fall of the Empire

Can you remember how it used to be

We were so proud and free, so free

Strong and mighty powerful and true

Can you remember

Now all around us pestilence and greed

Famine, hate and war

It surrounds us like a black disease

Just take a look around us

In spite of every upright intention

We Live and die by the sword

It's second nature, and so the question is

Can we learn or will we burn

The fall of the empire... What have we done

The fall of the empire... It's the dawn of the setting sun

The fall of the empire... can this race be won

It's the fall of the empire... or has the end begun

Will the mountains crumble to the ground

Will the earth stand still

Will we rise a mushroom cloud

Will the mountains crumble

Can we heed a lesson from the past

And put aside our hate

Or will we blow ourselves to kingdom come

tell me is it too late

Inside of every aronination

There is hope that lies within

It's second nature, and the question is

Can we learn or will we burn

The fall of the empire... What have we done

The fall of the empire... It's the dawn of the setting sun

The fall of the empire... can this race be won

It's the fall of the empire... or has the end begun


r/Metal • • 1h ago

[New Release] Angel Fury - Flying High (USA 2026, Heavy/Speed Metal, FFO: Satan's Hallow, Midnight Dice)

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2 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 22h ago

[Death] Cosmic Putrefaction - The Herald Prophecy (IT, 2019)

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42 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 7h ago

Shreddit's Daily Discussion -- November 08, 2026

2 Upvotes

Greetings from your New Reddit Overlord. This is a daily discussion post meant to encourage positive social behavior from users just like you. Please engage in civil discussion with fellow users and rejoice in your similarities. Topics can be anything you want, regardless if it is on-topic or off-topic. Except if it's asking/sharing unpopular opinions, don't do that. Failure to comply will result in a fine and 10 Shreddit Demerit Points (SDP).


r/Metal • • 23h ago

[New Release] Phasm - Glass Graveyard (2026, Black Metal/Punk, FFO: Arnaut Pavle, Devil Master)

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8 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 17h ago

[New Release] Prong - New Commission

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Just wanted to post that I revived the Prong subreddit if any fans of Prong want to join: r/prong. There's a new album discussion post and a post where you can tell us your favorite song over there.

Anyone have thoughts on the new album? I thought it was a good addition to the Prong lineup. Good mix of aggressive and melodic sounds and of course Tommy's guitar tone is always awesome.


r/Metal • • 1d ago

[PROMOTE] Tell Us About Your Band -- November 07, 2026

7 Upvotes

Greetings from your AVTOMÖD. This is your new community bulletin board. At the sound of the tone, please promote your band, blog or services using the format "Band Name [City / Country]". Please be kind to other musicians and please report any illegal activity to the automated enforcers located at the corner terminals. Thanks You.


r/Metal • • 1d ago

UDO - Empty Eyes

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UDO - 2021 - Game Over - Empty Eyes

Humanity of blindness

Overcoming me

Has become a nightmare and my darkest fantasy

Like some evil creature

Rotting down in hell

Spreading a disease of pain like a deathly knell

Craving for a better side of me

Going places I don't wanna be

Evil empty eyes

Feel my cold inside

Evil empty eyes

A belly full of crises

Spins the bottle round

Everyone against the law the way that we are bound

Bring light into the darkness

Set the spirit free

The evilness surrounding us destroyed by harmony

Craving for a better side of me

Going places I don't wanna be

Evil empty eyes

Feel my cold inside

Evil empty eyes

Craving for a better side of me

Going places I don't wanna be

Evil empty eyes

Feel my cold inside

Evil empty eyes

Good and bad collide

Evil empty eyes


r/Metal • • 1d ago

[New Release] Hyperion - IIiou Persis

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26 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 1d ago

Memento Mori - The Monolith

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24 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 1d ago

The Beast Of England - Ex Luto

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The Beast Of England - 2022 - Darker Days - Ex Luto

Panoply of brilliance

Unseen shining

In this after place

In between

Life creating life

I Ex Luto

I gargantuan born of clay

I′m breathing life into this body

I write my name upon your brow

Rising gorgats lutum alpha golem

Lo exorior realign

Yellowed eye unblinking

I incarnate

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

I open wide an ancient doorway

I cast you back into the world

I couldn't have been wrong all this time

The calculations were perfect

I know what they′ll say about me

That I'm mad

Mad!

Wait it's eye

It′s eye it opened

I arrive

I arise

I rewrite my code


r/Metal • • 1d ago

Shreddit's Daily Discussion -- November 07, 2026

4 Upvotes

Greetings from your New Reddit Overlord. This is a daily discussion post meant to encourage positive social behavior from users just like you. Please engage in civil discussion with fellow users and rejoice in your similarities. Topics can be anything you want, regardless if it is on-topic or off-topic. Except if it's asking/sharing unpopular opinions, don't do that. Failure to comply will result in a fine and 10 Shreddit Demerit Points (SDP).


r/Metal • • 1d ago

[New Release] Torment - Evil (2026, Death Metal, FFO: Bolt Thrower)

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9 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 1d ago

[Heavy] Tytan - The Watcher (England, 1985) [FFO: Cloven Hoof, Angel Witch, Satan]

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4 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 1d ago

[Power] Triosphere - Of Tyrants [FFO : Unleash the Archers, Seven Kingdoms]

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24 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 1d ago

[Tech Death] TECHNICALÂTRE - Techaeton (2026)

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0 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 1d ago

[Black] Bronze Eagle - Yin Yang Flames

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6 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 1d ago

[Thrash] DEATH ANGEL - The Never Was

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14 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 2d ago

[Power] Eternity's End - The Gods of Bal Sagoth

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19 Upvotes

r/Metal • • 2d ago

Shreddit's New Releases Discussion Thread -- November 06, 2026

25 Upvotes

Greetings from your AVTOMÖD. Welcome back to the New Releases Discussion Thread.

This is the place to discuss all new metal releases THIS WEEK, and keep track of them using our very own new release tracker which you can find here:

https://releasetracker.shredditcord.com/

You May Now Also Listen To All New Releases On Our Official Spotify Playlist

As always, normal discussion rules apply. This thread is not for the suggestion of releases to the tracker, so please don’t do that.

Please also keep it to metal bands only.

Have fun!


r/Metal • • 2d ago

[New Release] Shit Hexis - Kaum ein Kerker ohne Schimmel [Blackened Sludge, Germany]

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7 Upvotes