Author: Matt Hinch

  • Various Artists – Meantime [Redux]

    Various Artists – Meantime [Redux]

    Oh, Helmet! Now, I’m not talking about anything sexual. Just the legendary NY band. If I were a real journalist I’d go into the influence Helmet have had on the hard music scene, naming specific bands or scenes or whatever but Helmet’s reputation speaks for itself. Well, to a point. Strap It On, Meantime, Betty…

  • Hellbound Year End 2016: Matt Hinch

    Hellbound Year End 2016: Matt Hinch

    Hellbound’s End of Year Wrap Up: Part 3 Well, hell’s bells – 2016 was a hellride of a year, wasn’t it?! As the New Year comes creeping in with trepidation, the individual members of Team Hellbound take a look back at our favourites of the year, give our personal thoughts on the state of heavy metal in…

  • BigMotorGasoline – Fuel to Burn

    BigMotorGasoline – Fuel to Burn

    Now, Hellbound is a metal site, and I’m a metal guy. But we’ve talked about plenty of non-metal on this site and I’m not made of studded leather. Plus, I like to sample the local cuisine every now and again. So to speak. Case in point, the debut from Marmora, ON rockers BigMotorGasoline, Fuel to…

  • Full Metal Parenting presents: an interview with Bekki O

    Full Metal Parenting presents: an interview with Bekki O

    It’s been some time since we here at FMP have put anything together for you loyal readers. But hey, we’re parents after all. Life takes all kinds of turns. But Craig and I are back in the saddle (at least one stirrup) with an interview with Bekki O., an active metal tweeter from Knoxville and…

  • Olde – Shallow Graves EP

    Olde – Shallow Graves EP

    Last year Toronto’s Olde won the hearts of millions with debut LP, I. OK, that’s a lie. But their sludgy doom was nonetheless impressive to say the least, beating as many grooves into your cauliflower-ed ears as were pressed onto the wax. To keep concussed brains aware of their presence before a 2017 LP on…

  • The Basement Paintings – Mystic

    The Basement Paintings – Mystic

    The majority of the time RIYL lines baffle me as I tend not to hear the influence of most bands listed. Sometimes I just don’t hear it, sometimes I’m not trying to compare bands. However, in the case of The Basement Paintings and their Mystic album the RIYL line is bang on. ISIS, Tool, Pink…

  • Low Flying Hawks – Kofuku

    Low Flying Hawks – Kofuku

    After a while as a writer you come to rely on certain PR companies and labels to deliver the goods seemingly without question. In my case Sheltered Life PR and Magnetic Eye Records fall into that category. So when K0fuku by Low Flying Hawks landed in my inbox there was no hesitation as to whether…

  • Ecorche – Deep in the Ground

    Ecorche – Deep in the Ground

    It seems like almost every time you turn around something is coming out of Philly. This time it’s blackened industrialists Écorché and their sophomore album Deep in the Ground. JGW (vocals, guitar, synths, programming) and Wolfman (bass, synths, samples) follow no formula on this experimental experience. The album itself and its tracks seem pieced together…

  • Year-in-review 2015: Matt Hinch

    As another year draws to a close, we metalheads tend to take time to reflect on what the year in metal meant to us, and prepare our various lists of what was great, what sucked, and everything in between. This year we decided to get a little more up close and personal with Team Hellbound,…

  • Eternal Black – Eternal Black

    Eternal Black – Eternal Black

    For those of you who feel you were born too late, here’s a little EP from a Brooklyn band that feels the same way. Eternal Black unload three tracks of retro-styled doom on their debut, self-titled EP. Through a haze of grimy, overdriven tone and feedback the trio lay down seriously groovy, Wino-influenced doom riffs.…