Vancouver’s SCRAPE RECORDS Launches Record Label, Signs Zimmer’s Hole
Vancouver has a brand new metal record label albeit one with a very familiar name. Please welcome Scrape Records!
A NEW YEAR, MORE NEW (IN) METAL: 2017, PART 1b
Last week, in part 1, we noted that there’s too much going on in metal these days to leave all our ‘best of’ and…
Happy 35th Birthday to… Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast
Happy 35th birthday today to Iron Maiden’s The Number of The Beast. What an album!
TOP 10 CANADIAN ALBUMS of 2016, part two
Not all our Canadian favourites made it to this year’s top ten list (hellbound.ca/2016/12/hellbounds-top-10-canadian-albums-2016). For that reason we share with you here the top…
From the archives: ZOMBI show preview from 2005
Reading Steve Earles’ awesome review of the John Carpenter film score retrospective has sent me on a musical journey this weekend, dealing primiarily with…
Opeth / The Sword @ Massey Hall, Toronto ON, October 5, 2016
It’s not very often anymore that I am willing to go out to a mid-week show, but when you get the chance to see…
Happy 30th Birthday to… Iron Maiden’s Somewhere In Time
Thirty years ago today Iron Maiden released their sixth studio album, the progressively tinged Somewhere In Time. Following up the incredible success of the…
Dark Carnival Expo – Hamilton ON, July 9-10, 2016
A horror convention in Hamilton? Sign us up! Thanks to Rue Morgue magazine, Hamilton ON played host to two days of horror madness and…
Happy 30th birthday to… Motorhead’s Orgasmatron
It seems almost impossible to believe, but thirty years ago on this date Motorhead‘s Orgasmatron album was released on an unsuspecting public. It was…
Year-in-review 2015: Sean Palmerston
As another year draws to a close, we metalheads tend to take time to reflect on what the year in metal meant to us,…