Category: Reviews – Live
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Best metal events of 2014
Between us, we Hellbound folk make it out to a fair number of shows, festivals and other metal events throughout the year. Here are some of the ones that impressed us most in 2014. Adrien Begrand I was lucky enough to see a great deal of memorable shows over the course of 2014, in wide…
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Housecore Horror Film Festival in Austin TX, October 2014
Housecore Horror Film Festival Austin, Texas Review by Jay Gorania Photos Alyssa Herrman The second annual Housecore Horror Film Festival, spearheaded by Phil Anselmo and true crime author/heavy metal journalist Corey Mitchell, showcased an impressive line-up of heavy bands, horror movies and documentaries. The 40th Anniversary reunion of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s surviving cast members…
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Zombitrol & Blacktooth Black/Doom showcase in Toronto, Nov 29, 2014
Zombitrol/Blacktooth Joint FREE BLACK/DOOM SHOWCASE starring Volür, Godstopper, Empyrean Plague, Sortilegia Saturday November 29th, 2014 Smiling Buddha, 961 College St., Toronto Great all-Canadian lineup put together by Andrew Epstein (Zombitrol Productions, The Governor’s Ball) and Blacktooth Entertainment on November 29th at the Smiling Buddha Bar as a free gig (on a Saturday night in Toronto, eh!). Volür volur.bandcamp.com Sortilegia www.last.fm/music/Sortilegia…
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Devin Townsend Project, Animals as Leaders and Monuments in Toronto, Nov 30, 2014
Devin Townsend Project, Animals as Leaders and Monuments The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON November 30, 2014 Many years ago, my first gig as a teaching assistant was grading papers for an introductory university course on popular music. Though he respected my interests enough to invite me to give a guest lecture on metal music,…
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Death To All and Obituary in Toronto, Nov 27, 2014
DEATH (Death to All Tour) with OBITUARY, MASSACRE, RIVERS OF NIHIL Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto November 27th, 2014 So, I know I’m not one of the lucky thousands to have experienced the very beginnings of the death metal genre itself. DEATH, at any of the many peaks of their long-running lineup, fronted by the legendary…
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Deafheaven and Programm, Toronto ON, Nov 21, 2014
Converse Rubber Tracks Live: Deafheaven with guests Programm Opera House, Toronto ON Friday, November 21st, 2014 Metal as a genre doesn’t have the anti-establishment reputation of punk, but it still doesn’t seem all that likely that heavy metal would be ripe for corporate sponsorship. Nevertheless, in recent years we’ve seen such sponsorship beginning to flower, with corporate brand names like…
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ACID WITCH @ Bovine Sex Club, Toronto ON, November 15, 2014
ACID WITCH @ Bovine Sex Club, Toronto ON, November 15th, 2014 With support from IDNS and Chainbreaker, who were a great way to get the crowd amped up, Detroit’s Acid Witch made their first ever appearance outside of the United States. Fans packed into Toronto’s Queen Street standby, the Bovine Sex Club, for a Saturday…
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THRASH INVASION TOUR: Onslaught, Artillery and Vx36 at the Mansion, Kingston, ON November 11, 2014
THRASH INVASION TOUR: Onslaught, Artillery and Vx36 at the Mansion, Kingston, ON November 11, 2014 Photo above by Artillery I don’t get out to shows very much anymore. Especially if I don’t have much experience with the bands on hand. But when I get an event invite titled THRASH INVASION how could I pass it…
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King Diamond / Jess and the Ancient Ones @ Sound Academy, Toronto ON, October 18, 2014
Review by Sean Palmerston – Concert photos by Adam Wills This was a Saturday night worth remembering. A cold, crisp October evening just a few weeks before Halloween made for a fitting return of King Diamond to a Toronto stage. It had been over ten years since King had played Toronto with any of his…
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Amon Amarth, Sabaton, and Skeletonwitch in Thunder Bay, October 7, 2014
Photos By Scott Hobbs The crowd for the October 7th Amon Amarth show in Thunder Bay was made up of the usual suspects. Whereas the folks who had come to see Lacuna Coil a few weeks earlier looked like an intersection of several different kinds of people and music fans, at this show there was…