Messe des Morts VIII – Genèse
Piranha Bar, Montréal. Thursday the 22nd of November, 2018. It’s the eighth edition of this feast of black metal. Having attended a few times…
Quebec
Cantique Lepreux – Paysages Polaires
Cantique Lepreux are gearing up to release their second full-length album on Eisenwald on November 30, 2018 and it’s proving to be the perfect…
Akitso – Credo
Legendary Canadian black metal duo Akitsa have returned yet again with a brutal black metal record that has turned out to be their most…
Tunguska Mammoth song premiere: Phénix
In setting up his review of Breathless, the soon-to-be released new album from Tunguska Mammoth, Hellbound’s Gruesome Greg remarked on the fitting resonance between the Quebec band’s…
Amnesia Rockfest: outdoing themselves one year at a time
On some level, every show organizer and promoter wants to have the event that those who attended look back and remember as the most…
Sombres Forêts – La Mort du Soleil
Hellbound Metal: “The result is an album which is admirable in its aesthetic approach, but nonetheless disappointingly mundane in its musical execution.”
Voivod – Target Earth
Target Earth is one of those albums that many reviewers will spend more time talking about what is wrong with it than what is right. Since it is the first album to feature Mongrain and it is essentially the start of a new era, you can expect it to be compared over and over to the band’s legacy. This is unnecessary in my opinion, for as Snake sings in “Warchaic”, the band is out “to find a brand new world”, and it is something they manage to do just fine.
My patriotic punk/metal Olympic playlist
Well, unlike Vancouver 2010, I can’t truly say that I’m sick of our national anthem by now–Canada’s only won one gold medal this time around. But that said, while watching some exciting Olympic action, I still prefer to have the following blasting in the background…
DRAGONFORCE GETS GRILLED BY A NINE-YEAR-OLD
Ever wonder what would happen if you let a nine year old kid interview their favourite band? We over at Hellbound did, so we arranged for nine year old Sam Stewart-Panko to interview guitarists Sam Totman and Herman Li from his favourite band, Dragonforce. Here’s an interview you don’t want to miss.