Author: Sean Palmerston

  • The Gates of Slumber – The Wretch

    Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the trad-metal gallop of tunes like “Ice Worm” and “Iron Hammer,” but the new, slower TGOS on display on this album is right up my alley.

  • The Hounds of Hasselvander – Further Torments of the SG 12″

    This twelve inch single is an awesome slab of doom, and that is as it should be, for this is work of Pentagram and Raven legend Joe Hasselvande

  • Zombi – Escape Velocity

    Escape Velocity features a stripped-down Zombi—just synths and drums pulsating to a driving beat. It feels more urban and Germanic; at times like a sinister Kraftwerk. Zombi come across as cool masters of technology now; instead of mad lab techs trying to keep a roomful of aging machines alive and in synch. On Escape Velocity,…

  • Anvil / Alice Cooper @ Hamilton Place, Hamilton ON, May 17, 2011

    “Anvil ended up onstage seven minutes earlier than their previously announced set time of eight PM. Quietly strolling on stage and taking their instruments, the trio gave a quick nod and got down to business. Much to my surprise, the band opened with an instrumental, the mighty “March of The Crabs”. The band was in…

  • Seditius – Carne da Macello

    Gruesome Greg reviews Carne da Macello, the new album by Italy’s Seditius

  • TesseracT: The Hellbound Audio Interview

    Hellbound.ca’s Jason Wellwood in conversation earlier this April with Jay Postones of UK prog metallers TesseracT

  • Blasphemous Meals #3: Fish, Curry and Inebriated Protein

    Last year, I received a wonderful gift from my parents – a cookbook that received rave reviews and coverage in various metal magazines, from a publishing company started by one of my favourite writers; Ian Christe’s Bazillion Points. Annick Giroux is a multi-talented metal chick, dividing her time between graphic design, DJing and cooking the…

  • Sourvein – Black Fang

    These guys have been doing this so long that they don’t need to mess with the formula. Black Fang is like a mean Carolina moonshine—consume at your own risk!

  • Aenaon – Cendres Et Sang

    With their latest signing in Aenaon, Code666 continues to cement its name as the vanguard of forward-thinking blackmetal. Stellar release after stellar release, the label has proven its cutting-edge mettle time and again, and Cendres Et Sang is only further proof of the label’s impeccable taste.

  • Black Tusk – Passage through Purgatory

    Questionable timing aside, this is a solid, albeit less-than-spectacular slice of Georgia sludge.