Category: Features
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Dust Bolt interview: Lenny Bruce in San Francisco, May 2018
Germany’s Dust Bolt was set to join last year’s “Battle of the Bays” tour, featuring Obituary, Exodus and Power Trip. They did join, but belatedly – visa troubles. Happily, North Americans had a second chance to catch Dust Bolt opening for Obituary this spring. And Hellbound’s Gene Gaona was there, in San Francisco, to catch…
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Obituary interview: Trevor Peres in San Francisco, May 2018
Death metal pioneers OBITUARY conquered North America again this spring with their latest headlining tour, supported by Pallbearer, Skeletonwitch and Dust Bolt. The tour began May 2 in Atlanta, Georgia, and wrapped up June 3 in Miami, Florida. On May 25, Obituary rolled through San Francisco, and Hellbound’s Gene Gaona was there for the action.…
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Soulfly INTERVIEW: Mike Leon in Berkeley CA, May 2018
This spring Soulfly set out on a co-headlining tour with Nile. When the tour hit Berkeley, California in May, Hellbound’s Gene Gaona sat down for a chat with bassist Mike Leon. Check out their conversation below, or watch the video on Hellbound’s YouTube channel. Recorded at UC Theater Berkeley, 16 May 2018. SOULFLY Max Cavalera…
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Staff Picks, May 2018
Join us as we carry on a revived Hellbound tradition – our monthly staff picks/playlists. Every few weeks we ask our regular and longtime contributors to weigh in on what they’re listening to, watching, going to see… Expect a few quirks and idiosyncrasies now and then, but these are our standard staff pick categories: Listening…
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Metal vs cancer: Kitchener Metalfest 2018
Raising funds + raising awareness on May 26th Kitchener Metalfest returns on Saturday, May 26 for a celebration of metal and a ‘frak off’ to cancer. Beyond raising money, the organizers also aim to raise awareness about cancer prevention. Concert-goers can pick up some useful health information while enjoying some live metal – Vesperia, Atria, Maitreya,…
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#Throwback Thursday – Dimmu Borgir in 2004
On Friday, May 4, 2018, Dimmu Borgir released Eonian, their first full-length studio album in seven years. Fourteen years earlier, Dimmu Borgir were touring in support of what might be considered their “breakthrough” 2003 album, Death Cult Armageddon. Strangely enough, that tour eventually brought the band to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. And that rare event gave me the chance…
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Touring campus while young, metal-loving and Native American
Interview in the aftermath: Thomas and Lloyd Gray speak to Hellbound Thomas Kanewakeron Gray, 19, and Lloyd Skanahwati Gray, 17, had saved money to travel to Colorado State University to consider it as the potential starting point for the next chapter of their lives. The brothers, who are in a band together called Snot Goblin,…
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Staff Picks, April 2018
This month we continue a revived Hellbound tradition – our monthly staff picks/playlists. Every few weeks we ask our regular and longtime contributors to weigh in on what they’re listening to, watching, going to see… Expect a few quirks and idiosyncrasies now and then, but these are our standard staff pick categories: Listening to –…
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Heavy Metal Adam’s Quarterly Report – Q1 2018
Cover photo credit: Craig Reid Each quarter, Adam reviews some of the albums that stand out to him from the previous 3 months. There are no rankings, there is no order… only a collection of great music that you are hopefully not missing out on. Altars of Grief – Iris Doom metal in the vein of…
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Tunguska Mammoth song premiere: Phénix
In setting up his review of Breathless, the soon-to-be released new album from Tunguska Mammoth, Hellbound’s Gruesome Greg remarked on the fitting resonance between the Quebec band’s name and the music they make: “Combining a large prehistoric beast with the site of a massive natural explosion makes for quite a powerful moniker; in the case of Montreal’s Tunguska…