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  • The Witchfinder Radio/Hellbound.ca interview with Oderus Urungus

    The Witchfinder Radio/Hellbound.ca interview with Oderus Urungus

    Hellbound.ca’s Jason Wellwood in conversation with GWAR frontman Oderus Ungurus.

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS: August 2013

    Back again by popular demand! You keep asking when it’s coming back, so here it is. Here is what the staff of Hellbound.ca has been enjoying during the months of July and August 2013.

  • Philip H. Anselmo is a true original, raw and at his core

    “Be it that gnarly scream, outspoken attitude or empowering stage presence, Philip H. Anselmo can do it all. The multifaceted musician from NOLA is everyone’s favourite frontman of aggression; from shaping sub genres in Pantera to forming the supergroup Down, Superjoint Ritual and many side projects in between.” Ola Mazzuca interviews Philip H. Anselmo on…

  • Blasphemous Meals #8: Canucks a la Cuisine – headbanging over hot plates.

    In this entry of Blasphemous Meals, Ola Mazzuca covers three recipes from the Hellbent For Cooking book (Bazillion Points) that come from here at home in Canada! Three very different options are presented here, two dinners and a desert, from three very different bands that have been a part of the Canadian metal underground over…

  • Decibel Magazine Tour 2013 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, May 31, 2013

    Decibel Magazine Tour 2013 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON, May 31, 2013

    “By this point in the night the press of bodies on the main floor was damn near suffocating. Coupled with the intense heat, it was a sweaty affair indeed. Hair flying and riffs flying faster, Cannibal Corpse set a blistering pace for their 90+ minute, 20 song set.” Matt Hinch reviews the May 31st Toronto…

  • From the Archives: 2002 Interview with Down’s Pepper Keenan

    Things are a little quiet this week at Hellbound, as a bunch of us are away in Baltimore, MD at Maryland Deathfest. So, since we are away, here is a reprint of a story I did on one of this year’s headliners, DOWN, for their second album back in 2002.

  • Heavy Metal, Popular Culture, and Academia

    Heavy Metal, Popular Culture, and Academia

    “Importantly, the presentations often approached a generalized assumption that some group or groups of people hold about metal music or culture only to complexify the issue, demonstrating how research in particular locations, milieus, and demographics reveals the diversity in the ways people understand and engage with metal.” Laura Wiebe reports back on the first North…

  • CONTEST: Win tickets to see Fear Factory/Hate Eternal live in Toronto!

    Our good friends over at Collective Concerts have given Hellbound 2 pairs of tickets to see Fear Factory on their Toronto stop of current their North American tour! As the show is NEXT Wednesday (April 24, 201), the contest will be open until Sunday, April 21st at Midnight, so make sure to enter now!

  • Chicken Dinner with Quorthon

    In 1996, Hellbound’s Sean Palmerston was offered the chance to do the first ever in-person North American radio interview with Quorthon, leader and visionary behind legendary Swedish black metal act Bathory. They also went out for dinner together beforehand, and here are Sean’s memories of that fateful night some seventeen years ago, shared in public…

  • View From the Vault: Warpig Wails Again

    View From the Vault: Warpig Wails Again

    Originally published in VIEW Magazine in November 2006, this interview was with Warpig founding vocalist/guitarist Rick Donmoyer about the 2006 re-release of their self-titled album, originally released on Fonthill Records Canada on 1971