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Welcoming the very first edition of Very Prog Festival
Exciting news for prog metal fans! There’s a brand new festival emerging dedicated to the genre: Very Prog Festival. Its very first edition will be taking place on October 12-13, 2018 at Le Metronum in Toulouse, France. Le Metronum, a 600 person capacity venue, welcomes bands round the year and is no newbie to hosting festivals.…
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RAGE Fest 2018 in Los Angeles, CA
Photos and review by Josue Solano Attila with Suicide Silence, Volumes, Spite, and Cross Your Fingers Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA – 24 August 2018 Just as you thought summer was over Attila came through and brought the party to us once again with a tour called Rage Fest. This was the most insane line up of…
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Rob Halford: The Good Kind of Pride
In the metal world, Rob Halford is a man of important influence and inspiration. Halford, along with the band Judas Priest, paved the way for metal. Judas Priest stands among the godfathers of metal, like Black Sabbath, earning them high respect in the metal world. Musically, they took heavy guitar to a new level and perfected…
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UNLEASH THE ARCHERS, WHO KNOW NO REINS
GUEST POST by David Boyle Unleash the Archers, a Canada-based band (Vancouver, B.C.), has reignited my heavy-metal fascination. Since its inception in 2007, the quintet, featuring Brittney Slayes (vocals), Scott Buchanan (drums), Grant Truesdell (guitar, vocals), Andrew Kingsley (guitar, vocals), and Nikko Whitworth (bass), has been building a devout fan base, and fast. I had never…
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In Memoriam: William Nicholas Tolley, 1974-2017
William “Bill” Tolley wasn’t just the drummer of Internal Bleeding, pioneers of American brutal death metal and precursors to slam death metal. He was also a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). He tragically, and heroically, passed away Thursday, April 20, 2017, in the line of duty while fighting a fire in New…
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Slowly We Rot: The Resounding Influence of Death Metal Album Art
By Connor Glaze (www.smashwords.com/profile/view/cglaze) The 13th of February marked the 46th anniversary of Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album. Looking at the fast, feverish development of it all over past decades, it’s hard to believe that metal as we know it is almost half a century old! It’s been a long time since Sabbath were first…
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Diemonds is a band on the rise
By Madison McSweeney (rantsandwritingsblog.wordpress.com) After signing with eOne in 2015, Toronto glam-metal act Diemonds released their first major label album Never Wanna Die, which combines aggressive riffing with hair-metal hooks. Hot off a Juno nomination for Heavy Metal Album of the Year, frontwoman Priya Panda took a break from her rehearsal schedule to chat about the…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Gruve
Reports from the North by Northeast trenches Gruve at NXNE 2014 Hey Hellbound readers, my name’s Jay Pollmann. I play in the groove based dirt rock band GRUVE. Hellbound.ca asked us to document our NXNE experience this year and we gladly accepted the offer. We were thrilled to be a part of the 20th year…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Redanda
Reports from the trenches Redanda & Buddy-Boys at NXNE 2014 This is being written with a fairly heavy hangover, but hopefully that means our experience at NXNE 2014 is still fresh in the mind, however hazy. We departed from Hamilton (which a beer girl at the tents at Yonge & Dundas kindly referred to as…
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XUL: Poised to take the world of metal by storm
Photo by Bailey Ann Gottlieb Interview by Patrick Chappelle Occasionally, the boundaries of metal are tested and stretched beyond the confines of what its fans find acceptable, by bands bands who seek to create something distinctive. Such efforts by artists who lack percipience or talent to make it happen, result in abominable recordings that often…