Author: Sean Palmerston

  • Bacon, Eggs and Sacrilege: Toronto’s Most Blasphemous Brunch

    What do you get when you mix home-style, hearty cooking with extreme music? Kensington Market’s very own Black Metal Brunch; your weekly serving of bacon, eggs, and a side of Venom’s Welcome To Hell. Ola Mazzuca’s newest entry into the Blasphemous Blog goes into her love for Toronto’s best Sunday brunch, the long-standing Black Metal…

  • Rodrigo y Gabriela: 11:11

    Rodrigo y Gabriela’s new album 11.11 challenges a lot of preconceptions of metal heads and metal music. While the instrumental, largely acoustic album cannot be traditionally considered as a ‘metal,’ the duo of Rodrigo Sánchez (lead guitar) and Gabriela Quintero, (rhythm) definitely has roots in classic and thrash metal. They started perfoming together after they…

  • Ancestors: Of Sound Mind

    Ancestors can’t decide whether to join the noodly prog rock or stoner doom circles, and has left a foot in both camps, coming off like Dream Theater on ditch weed.

  • Current Playlist: Bruce Franklin of Trouble

    Trouble’s guitarist Bruce Franklin’s runs down his current playlist.

  • Trouble: Nowhere Near Endtime

    “We’ve heard some people ask why did you pick Kory Clarke, because he’s not a doom metal singer or he doesn’t sound anything like Eric, but we weren’t particularly looking for someone to sound just like Eric, and we weren’t necessarily looking for someone who was just a doom metal singer either. And we were…

  • A Storm of Light: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

    Forgive Us Our Trespasses is not only a lumbering, crushing sonic tour of a world without us, it’s also a cutting and unsubtle condemnation of humanity’s indifference to its own habitats.

  • Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue

    To put more flesh on that connective tissue, great care seems to have been taken by Cantrell & co. to draw a hard line connecting the AIC of old with that of Black Gives Way To Blue.

  • Sanctification: Black Reign

    While there’s no lack of unbridled aggression and combative, malicious intent, the prevailing aura is one of a band intent on reiterating their adoration for the likes of Deicide, Hate Eternal and a few of the more obvious homeland death metal acts such as Entombed et al.

  • Gnostic: Engineering the Rule

    Gnostic is a great, enjoyable ride of a listen, and dare I say it, an effort for the Atheist members to get a bit more edgier without losing their signature sound.

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS: December 2009

    Find out what HELLBOUND’s contributors are listening to going into the month of December. Each writer has submitted their Top 5 list and have an option to list a book and a film they are into right now too.