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Festival Review: Fortress Festival 2024
As a young buck, I was never attracted to Black Metal more than when it was filled to the brim with inconceivable levels of exalted atmosphere that encapsulated the world around me in all aspects; emotionally, physically and geographically. As I walked up to the edge of Scarborough’s Seaside Cliff to find myself gazing down…
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Hellbound Interviews : MORBIKON’s “Land” Phil Hall – November 18, 2022
Having been totally taken in by MORBIKON “Ov Mournful Twilight” since its release this fall, Hellbound contributor Danielle Griscti was excited to speak with Phil “Land Phil” Hall (Municipal Waste, Cannabis Corpse, Iron Reagan) about it. Read the interview below, and listen to “Ov Mournful Twilight” on Bandcamp here via Tankcrimes Records. Hellbound (HB) :…
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Imperial Triumphant – Live – August 14th, Glasgow, UK
Sunday night – what better time for an evening of thinking man’s chaotic avant-garde black metal, namely Imperial Triumphant from New York. This show was another covid casaulty, originally penned in for last year but was inevitably postponed. Formed in 2005 by Zachary Ilya Ezrin, they released a few full-lengths but it was 2008’s Vile…
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Cattle Decapitation – Live – August 18th, Glasgow, UK
Hot off the trail of their debut appearance at Bloodstock Festival, American death/grinders Cattle Decapitation are back in Glasgow. In 2019, they released their prescient album Death Atlas and toured for it into the following year, before cancellations due to you-know-what. So this delayed European tour promotes that album and feels timely considering the global depression…
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Mayhem & Mortiis Live Review – Glasgow, UK
Finally, infamous Norwegian black metallers Mayhem are in Glasgow. A show initially penned for two years ago pre-plague. It’s third time lucky for this rescheduled date and the city is ready for it – the show is entirely sold out. Support comes from fellow Norwegian band, Mortiis. He was in an early incarnation of the seminal…
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Acid – Acid Box [3LP]
Acid Acid Box (3LP box set) (Narnack Records) There’s no question that bands have come up with some pretty unusual items to include with their albums and/or box sets in the twenty-first century, but Acid – the band formed by Jeff Hassay and Imaad Wasif (Wasif – the guitarist who filled in for James Iha…
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Eve Of Darkness Book Explores Toronto’s Heavy Metal Scene From 1980-1989
Saturday, September 25th will make the launch of a very important artifact chronicling the history of the heavy metal music scene in the greater Toronto, Ontario area. On that day, UXB Press will be releasing their newest book, entitled Eve Of Darkness: Toronto Metal in the ’80s. This book is a massive, painstakingly put together…
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Vancouver’s SCRAPE RECORDS Launches Record Label, Signs Zimmer’s Hole
Vancouver has a brand new metal record label albeit one with a very familiar name. Please welcome Scrape Records!
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IN CONVERSATION WITH (THE) MELVINS: THE SUB-POP THICKENS
Kyle Harcott interviews Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Steven McDonald in Vancouver, July 2017 Nearly thirty-five years into their career as sludge-metal progenitors, (The) Melvins have a well-known salty reputation with rock journalists that precedes them. Being masters of sardonic wit and not suffering fools gladly, an interview with them can either come out entirely…
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UK Thrash: Part 4
Noted UK punk rock journalist Ian Glasper recently announced that he’s writing a book on the history of UK thrash metal, to be published in 2018. That announcement got me thinking about all the old-school UK thrash and crossover bands I used to listen to back in the day, and the ones that I still…