Author: Sean Palmerston

  • Slough Feg/ Funeral Circle @ Red Room, Vancouver BC, May 29 2010

    The inveterate Slough Feg are one of those bands that pulls it off so well live that they’re able to sound identical to what they do on tape, which I found pretty impressive considering how ornate their songs can get. Personally, I was there to hear songs from their latest, Ape Uprising!, and they did…

  • Early Graves – Goner

    If you like it mean, fast, crusty and hammering, check out Goner, it’s a housewrecker of a disc.

  • Happy 1st Birthday HELLBOUND.CA!

    Today is the first anniversary of the launch of HELLBOUND.CA! One year ago the site went live for the first time with a small staff of excellent, dedicated writers and hopeful plans that we’d be able to stick it out. Now twelve months later we are still here with a cracking staff of writers, a…

  • Godsmack – The Oracle

    It has been a Godsmack trademark to toss out allusions to material that is more interesting and more ambitious than their commercial hits would seem to suggest. As The Oracle offers up its share of such material, it will be interesting to see where the band continues to take things from here.

  • Photo Gallery: 1349 @ Opera House, Toronto ON, April 28, 2010

    Here are some of my photos of 1349, live in Toronto on April 28, 2010. I will put up pics of the other bands in the days to come

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS: May 2010

    BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Find out what HELLBOUND’s contributors have been listening to during the month of May. Almost every writer has submitted their Top 5 list and have an option to list a book and a film they are into right now too.

  • Gamma Ray – To The Metal

    As this is essentially a workmanlike album from a workhorse band, it is hard to conjure much excitement for To The Metal. It commits few misdeeds. It offers even fewer triumphs.

  • Soulfly – Omen

    The thing about Omen is that it feels like Soulfly is running through the motions in a lot of ways. The clue to that lies (again) in the Jeffrey Dahmer referencing; the cannibal was arrested and tossed in the can in 1992. He died in ’94; this was the best the band could do?

  • Gone Fishing on Monday!

    Hey everybody, since Monday is a holiday in Canada (Victoria Day for those unaware) we will be going fishing. See you Tuesday!

  • Witchery – Witchkrieg

     By Adrien Begrand Although there aren’t many metal side projects that are actually worth getting very excited about, without question, every time Witchery puts out a new album it’s an event. Never ones to do anything particularly inventive, Witchery specializes in a hybrid of thrash and black metal with minimal frills, but like another Swedish…