Category: Features
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Steve Earles’s 2018 in metal
Every year, Hellbound writers submit their top albums of the year. They all get compiled into Hellbound’s Top Metal Albums of the year (coming soon). Top Albums of 2018 10. At the Edge of Time Artist: Crystal Viper Label: AFM Records Listen to At the Edge of Time on Spotify 9. Exsolve Artist: Jo…
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Adrien Begrand’s 2018 in metal
Every year, Hellbound writers submit their top albums of the year. They all get compiled into Hellbound’s Top Metal Albums of the year (coming soon). Top Albums of 2018 10. Manor of Infinite Forms Artist: Tomb Mold Label: 20 Buck Spin Listen to Manor of Infinite Forms on Bandcamp 9. Queen of Time Artist: Amorphis…
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Matt Hinch’s Top Metal Albums of 2018
Every year, Hellbound writers submit their top albums of the year. They all get compiled into Hellbound’s Top Metal Albums of the year (coming soon). Top Albums of 2018 10. The Spark That Moves Artist:Cancer Bats Label:Bat Skull/New Damage I was more than pleasantly surprised when this dropped out of nowhere on April 20. (Coincidence?)…
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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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Staff Playlists, October 2018 (Halloween edition)
Join us once again for an update on what the Hellbound folks are digging these days. On top of the usual picks this month, we share some of our spooky Halloween favourites. Hellbound recommends Bill Adams New release: Hamell On Trial – The Night Guy at The Apocalypse, Profiles of Rushing Midnight (LP). Anybody who…
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Hellbound interviews Genocide Pact in San Francisco
This fall, Washington DC’s Genocide Pact are busy touring North America as part of the Relapse Contamination Tour 2018. When the tour hit San Francisco, Hellbound’s Gene Gaona got a chance to talk death metal and more with Genocide Pact drummer Connor and guitarist /vocalist Tim. INTERVIEW: Interview recorded at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco ,…
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KING PARROT interview, September 2018
KING PARROT photo by Zo Damage Last month Hellbound’s Gene Gaona spent some time in Texas with Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals along with the opening bands on the Choosing Mental Illness as a Virtue tour. We shared Gene’s interview with Anselmo and Mike De Leon already. Now we have another peak into those few…
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Hellbound interviews Max Cavalera
Back in March, I had the extreme luck to sit down with one of my all-time heroes, Max Cavalera. Max was in Vancouver with Soulfly, touring the first Nailbomb album, Point Blank, in its entirety, as played onstage by Soulfly. As a Sepultura fan since I first heard Arise in 1991, it was an extreme…
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Philip H. Anselmo & Mike DeLeon of The Illegals
What can I say, life is a trip sometimes… literally. In early September I caught a flight out of San José, California to the great state of Texas to catch up with Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals and label mates King Parrot. I met up with both bands in San Antonio on the second…