Author: Kevin Stewart-Panko

  • SATAN TOUR DIARY – Final Instalment

    SATAN TOUR DIARY – Final Instalment

    By Steve Ramsey [as emailed to and edited by Kevin Stewart-Panko] By the time you read this, original NWOBHM death-cheaters, Satan will have had North America in their rear view mirror, probably finishing up their Japanese festival duties and heading back to jolly ol’ England to get back to annoying their wives and having their…

  • SATAN TOUR DIARY Part Two

    SATAN TOUR DIARY Part Two

    By Steve Ramsey [as not-very-told-to Kevin Stewart-Panko] By the time you read this, the last show of Satan’s 2014 North American tour will be over and done and the band will be on their way to Japan to play a festival or two. But that shouldn’t stop anyone from digging into some tasty tales from…

  • SATAN TOUR DIARY Part One

    SATAN TOUR DIARY Part One

    Exclusive for Hellbound.ca, SATAN guitarist Steve Ramsey checks in with a tour diary chronicling their current 2014 North American tour, one of this year’s must see metal tours!

  • Killswitch Engage: Turning Liquid Sugar Into Gold

    Whether it’s because they have definite hardcore roots, forming as they did from the ashes of Overcast, Aftershock and, later, Blood Has Been Shed, or because they have choruses that sound more like globules of liquid sugar instead of caustic battery acid, Massachusetts’ Killswitch Engage has always had troubles being accepted by metalheads across the…