Pregunta y Respuesta con Archaios | Dominican Republic’s Premier Death Metal...
By Ola Mazzuca Two decades of hard work, hungry attitude and heavy metal have shaped Santo Domingo natives Archaios. Their second full-length album, The Distant, is a voracious piece that captures...
View ArticleLagwagon – Duh / Trashed / Hoss / Double Plaidinum / Let’s Talk About Feelings
By Kevin Stewart-Panko The first and most obvious question you’re probably asking yourself after seeing that Hellbound is reviewing the Fat Wreck re-issues of the first five albums by these Goleta,...
View ArticleMurder In The Front Row – Shots From The Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter
By Keith Carman Less than a half-century old, at this point in the history of loud music there’s very little that can be unearthed from its relatively shallow grave. Other than a few, “I was there,...
View ArticleInterview with Yasin Hillborg, director of Så Jävla Metal
By Natalie Zed Currently set to celebrate its Canadian premiere at the NXNE festival in Toronto, Så Jävla Metal is a documentary about the evolution of heavy metal music in Sweden. The film traces the...
View ArticleA live set of HELLYEAH could be worth your weekly therapy session
By Ola Mazzuca Three times a charm for Hellyeah, playing Toronto for their third time as one of metal’s most popular supergroups. Their prominence radiates from the prolific drumming of Vinnie Paul...
View ArticleNoctis Valkyries 5: Hell Comes To Cowtown
By Kyle Harcott This year’s Noctis V festival in Calgary was an epic long weekend of metal: Twenty-one bands over three headbanging nights. And during the day, a conference of metal-centric panels...
View ArticleThe 69 Eyes – X
By Ola Mazzuca A few years ago, Terrorizer Magazine published an editorial with what looked like a hair metal band resurrected as gothic vampires. Pawing at the bloody neck of a damsel in distress in...
View ArticleLost Gem Alert: Northern Oak – Monuments
(I had never heard of this band until Steve Earles sent a review in. Despite it being released more than two years ago now I thought it was worth running this review to help turn some more people onto...
View ArticleChicken Dinner with Quorthon
By Sean Palmerston During the early to mid-nineties I lived in Toronto, Ontario. I moved there in 1991 to attend York University for a BA in Geography (I later switched to Canadian History) and I...
View ArticleJeff Hanneman – Reign In Peace
Jeff Hanneman photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Last Thursday came the quite surprising announcement that Jeff Hanneman, longtime guitarist and founding member of Slayer, had passed away at only 49...
View ArticleHELLBOUND RADIO – August 4, 2013 Playlist
For this week’s edition of HELLBOUND RADIO there was an old familiar face in the control booth with Kevin. Former Hellbound co-host Matt Lewis was Kevin’s special guest on Sunday night. He was in town...
View ArticleGhoul – Intermediate Level Hardcore
By Matt Hinch Cover albums play a very important role in spreading music. They may not be universally accepted by metaldom but there’s no doubt countless fans have discovered new bands, if not entire...
View ArticleBill Ward: The Hellbound Interview
Photo (c) Christopher Wagner By Kyle Harcott It don’t mean a thing if don’t got that caveman swing. Heavy metal’s birth, squalling and screeching, is, invariably, always credited to the guitarist of...
View ArticleSlayer says farewell in San Jose, 26 August 2018
SLAYER w/ Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament, Napalm Death @ the SAP Center in San Jose, CA August 26th brought the final show of Slayer’s North American “Farewell” tour to the SAP Center in downtown San...
View ArticleCreate a Kill – Summoned to Rise
Being a fan of the Thrash genre since the tender young age of 12 (I’m now 45) I have been fortunate enough to hear and witness the birth of some of the greatest Thrash music known to man. For some time...
View ArticleGRUESOME GREG’S TOP 18 CONCERTS OF 2018
Didn’t do a lot of travelling to see shows this year, but there were a lotta great gigs in Toronto! I’m not even gonna bother with a “Top Non-Metal Concerts” this time around (except for just one), or...
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