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  • Hellbound Handshake Clip Of The Week: GORGUTS Live at MDF 2010

    Introducing the Hellbound Handshake Clip of The Week! This week it is GORGUTS Live at Maryland Deathfest 2010

  • Iggy And The Stooges Return From The Brink

    “We got asked a lot if it was supposed to be a tribute show or something; you couldn’t blame the writers for asking that, because it does happen that some dudes package up an old deal like a shtick. That’s not the case here; the way they play these new songs, they don’t do ’em…

  • Vilipend – Detonating Metallic Parameters

    The beastly grit of doom. Grindcore’s fiery onslaught. Black metal’s confrontational excess. The jarring obtuseness of tech. Metal is founded on explosive, aggressive and often combative attitudes. Still, just when one feels remotely comfortable—possibly slightly expectant—as to what the genre’s next twist will be, something so dominant, furious and volatile comes along that it redefines…

  • Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax Are Coming To a Canadian Theater Near You June 22nd!

    I am sure by now you all have heard about how “the Big Four” are finally playing together this summer, albeit only in Europe at massive summer festivals. Well, if you live in Canada and can’t make it overseas this summer, maybe a trip to your local movie theatre will suffice? Read below to find…

  • Nachtmystium – Not so black metal

    While the practice of genre blending is nothing new to the world of metal, few bands have taken it to the extremes that Chicago band Nachtmystium have. Built on a strong foundation of second wave black metal, that band have evolved progressively into a psychedelic, industrial and post punk fueled black metal behemoth, culminating in…

  • KEVI METAL’S RIMSHOTS V. 2 #4: MARYLAND DEATHFEST 2010 EDITION

    Here’s the scene: Hellbound’s old man posse – myself, photographer/CD pillager Albert and our fearless leader Sean – have found ourselves in a Motel 6 in suburban Baltimore, our digs for the duration of our time at the Maryland Deathfest. That this joint looks like a cross between 1970s IKEA and the set of the…

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Watain: The Hellbound Interview

    This kind of music attracts people that want to explore the dark , the kinds of things within that want to have an outlet and want to be manifested in reality, in your life. Black metal is one way of letting this side manifest. Justin M. Norton in conversation with Erik Danielsson of Watain on…

  • Andrew Bonazelli: The Hellbound Interview

    I have no idea if Andrew Bonazelli has ever picked up an instrument, let alone ever played in a band, but his position as the reviews and managing editor of the almighty Decibel Magazine and the fact that he’s just released his second book, A Regular, means there’s a connection to the world of extreme…