Author: Sean Palmerston

  • End Of A Year – You Are Beneath Me

    There’s nothing easy about the album; no chant-along moments that incite crowds and establish instant followers. Everything with this affair is begrudging and hard-won on both sides of the band/listener relationship. Yet those who stick around long enough will realize that sometimes it’s those things we fight hardest for which wind up being the most…

  • HELLBOUND SUMMER METAL MELTDOWN: July 10, 2010 Playlist

    In an ongoing attempt to show that our Hellbound radio programs are some of the most varied, interesting metal radio shows that can be heard on the radio/online, here is our playlist to last night’s edition of the HELLBOUND SUMMER METAL MELTDOWN. Kevin wasn’t around for this program, as he was preparing for his upcoming…

  • Hellbound Handshake Clip Of The Week: DECEASED “The Silent Creature” Live at MDF 2010

    The fourth installment of the Hellbound Handshake Clip Of The Week is DECEASED live at Maryland Deathfest 8, performing “The Silent Creature”.

  • Melvins/ Totimoshi @ Rickshaw Theater, Vancouver BC, July 5, 2010

    “Having seen the Melvins in previous three-piece variants over the years, this was my very-excited first time seeing this four-on-the-floor version that includes the Big Business guys, even though the band’s been touring in this incarnation since 2006. First, the stage set-up is key: Looking like one monstrous kit, the twin drumsets are dead center…

  • CONTEST: Go See Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax AGAIN On July 19th!

    Cineplex has decided to do an encore showing of “The Big Four: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax” on July 19th and we have four pairs of tickets to give away! Click through to read more!

  • Soilwork-The Panic Broadcast

    After the huge letdown of Dark Tranquillity’s latest album We Are The Void it is really good to see Soilwork back on their game.

  • Charred Walls of the Damned/ Piledriver/ Ash Lee Blade @ The Opera House, Toronto ON July 4, 2010

    The awkwardly-named Charred Walls of the Damned delivered a solid headlining performance. While the other bands they shared the stage with has set a decidedly un-serious precedent, CWotD were much more straightforward and earnest in their presentation. Not to say that they were stuffy or stoic. They play unabashedly entertaining power/thrash metal, but choose not…

  • Iron Maiden @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto ON, July 3rd 2010

    “Saturday’s show was a real Iron Maiden show, done with passion and vigour and integrity. It was a show made for their die hard, long-supporting fans. This was no greatest hits run-through, this was a band celebrating the fact that, after more than thirty years as a professional band, some of their greatest musical achievements…

  • Delain – Lucidity

    As for the bulk of the original album, it’s what you would expect from a former member of Within Temptation (Westerholt): soaring vocals, bombastic guitar solos, pounding drums, lush keyboard and symphonic string arrangements. All played with subtlety and an attention to contrast that it seems only those in power or progressive metal remember any…

  • Racebannon – Wrap The Body

    Wrap the Body is a neat little experiment, but is likely only bound to be wholly accepted and tolerated by Racebannon die-hards, masochistic punishment gluttons and maybe even the occasional DJ. It’s probably a good thing that only 500 of these have been pressed.