Author: Sean Palmerston

Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory and Injury

If Teethed Glory and Injury has a central flaw, it is that the vignette-like nature of its individual songs and transitions means that it also lacks the cohesiveness of their previous full-lengths. It is thus much less of a smooth listen from start to finish.

May 3, 2013
Hypocrisy – End of Disclosure

Hypocrisy aren’t zombies, but their decade-plus career has spawned fantastic music for the Swedish melodic scene.

May 3, 2013
Old Corpse Road – ‘Tis Witching Hour…As Spectres We Haunt This Kingdom’

Hellbound Metal: The best new British band since The Meads of Asphodel, I can give no higher praise!

May 2, 2013
Devil to Pay – Fate is Your Muse

Hellbound Metal: In any case, they might have flown under the radar for some time, but this album proves that if you sleep on this Indy outfit, well, payback is a bitch. 😉

May 2, 2013
Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

Hellbound Metal: If listeners were uncertain of what to expect from Rob Zombie now, seven years after his music began to struggle and movies clearly began to take up more of his time,the singer spells out what they’re going to get pretty clearly from the moment “Teenage Nosferatu Pussy” explodes to open Venomous Rat Regeneration…

May 1, 2013
Revelation – Inner Harbor

A new album is always a welcome sight from this longstanding Maryland doom trio

April 26, 2013
Call Of The Void – Dragged Down a Dead End Path

Dragged Down a Dead End Path does exactly as the title suggests. Call of the Void drags the listener, kicking and screaming, toward a gruesome end in a shallow, lonely grave they had to dig themselves.

April 26, 2013
CONTEST: Win tickets to see KATATONIA live in Montreal April 25th!

Win a pair of tickets to see KATATONIA do their only exclusive Canadian headlining show on April 25th at Petit Campus in Montreal!

April 20, 2013
CONTEST: Win tickets to see Fear Factory/Hate Eternal live in Toronto!

Our good friends over at Collective Concerts have given Hellbound 2 pairs of tickets to see Fear Factory on their Toronto stop of current their North American tour! As the show is NEXT Wednesday (April 24, 201), the contest will be open until Sunday, April 21st at Midnight, so make sure to enter now!

April 16, 2013
Harangue – Battle Not With Monsters

Harangue has delivered a concise EP filled with a sense of controlled anarchy. The energy level flogs the listener into submission and begs for repeated spins. It’s also that energy that’s sure to make their live performance a bruising affair. Battle not with moshers?

April 15, 2013