Category: Adam Wills
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Essential Heavy Metal Christmas Songs
Over at CFMU, I co-host the metal show – Kill, Eat, Exploit the Weak – and we just finished our annual Christmas special. It’s always one of my favourite episodes to put together as the combination of heavy metal and the Christmas season brings two worlds together that normally don’t mix – the extreme speed…
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Heavy Metal Adam’s Quarterly Report – Q1 2018
Cover photo credit: Craig Reid Each quarter, Adam reviews some of the albums that stand out to him from the previous 3 months. There are no rankings, there is no order… only a collection of great music that you are hopefully not missing out on. Altars of Grief – Iris Doom metal in the vein of…
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10 Great Canadian Albums You May Have Missed in 2015
Happy Canada Day! Even though I’m in the metal capital of the world (Finland), I’m still excited about celebrating Canada Day with some Canadian metal. In between beers and trips to the sauna, I’ve thrown together a list of Canadian albums that you may or may not have had a chance to check out this…
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Juno Awards 2014 – And the Winner Is….
Well, the Juno Awards have come, and Hellbounders and Canadian metalheads have been keeping an eye on the new-ish “Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year” category. The committee in charge has been rather successful at embracing underground metal – previous winners include KEN mode and Woods of Ypres. Nominees for this year’s award were: Heart…
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Junos 2014 – And the nominees for Metal/Hard Rock Album of the Year are…
Well, the 2014 Juno Award Nominees have been announced, and us Hellbounders were keeping an eye out for the Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year category. Unlike their American counterparts, the Junos have done a great job of having some great acts win and get nominated in the past (Woods of Ypres won in 2013…
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Best of the Best – A Tally of the Year’s Best Albums
I’m not sure exactly what this list means – is this list any better than any of the individual lists? Probably not. Every list that comes out has their own personality, has albums that may be less obvious. But perhaps what this list does show is what the collective metal media thought was the “can’t…
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Photo Gallery: Mares of Thrace rocked Hamilton
Mares of Thrace stopped in at Hamilton, ON’s This Ain’t Hollywood for a show earlier this month as part of their tour supporting new album The Pilgrimage. Here are some photos from that evening’s performance, as captured by Hellbound’s own Adam Wills.
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It’s Kvlt to Eat Your Vegetables: Vegan Black Metal Chef’s Pad Thai
“I like my metal and I like my vegan food, so I couldn’t help but be delighted when earlier this year Vegan Black Metal Chef videos started circulating via Twitter and other social media: black metal aesthetics and meat, dairy, and egg-free cooking in a delightfully over-the-top combination.” Laura Wiebe, Mark Coatsworth and Adam Wills…
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Photo Gallery: Diamond Head live at Heavy T.O.
Photo Gallery: Diamond Head live at Heavy T.O., as shot by Albert Mansour and Adam Wills
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HeavyMetalAdam Invades Heavy TO: The Homecoming
This weekend marks the first instalment of Heavy TO, Toronto’s spinoff of the previously visited Heavy MTL. Having attending the previous event in Montreal, I decided to stay a bit closer to home and catch the inaugural event here in Ontario. As I have done at the previous festivals, I’ll be live blogging throughout the…