Category: Features

  • Heavy metal in 2017 by Jay H. Gorania

    Heavy metal in 2017 by Jay H. Gorania

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy metal in 2017 by Gruesome Greg

    Heavy metal in 2017 by Gruesome Greg

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy Metal in 2017 by Elena Francis

    Heavy Metal in 2017 by Elena Francis

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy Metal in 2017 by Matt Hinch

    Heavy Metal in 2017 by Matt Hinch

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy Metal in 2017 by Steve Earles

    Heavy Metal in 2017 by Steve Earles

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy metal in 2017 by Gene A. Gaona

    Heavy metal in 2017 by Gene A. Gaona

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Best metal of 2017: 1-5

    Best metal of 2017: 1-5

    Hellbound’s Top Metal Releases of the Year, part II Twelve Hellbound contributors named their ten favourite metal releases of 2017. Kyle Harcott tallied the entries, did the math and assigned the commentaries below. You, readers, have already had the chance to see our honourable mentions and part one of our collective ‘best of’ list: entries 10 through…

  • Best metal of 2017: 6-10

    Best metal of 2017: 6-10

    Hellbound’s Top Metal Releases of the Year, part I Twelve Hellbound contributors named their ten favourite metal releases of 2017. Kyle Harcott tallied the entries, did the math and assigned the commentaries below. You, readers, have already had the chance to see our honourable mentions – now we present to you part one of our collective…

  • Honourable mentions of 2017

    Honourable mentions of 2017

    We at Hellbound are nearly ready to weigh in on the best metal releases of 2017 with our collective top ten, as voted by the contributors. Before we share this overall ‘best of’ list, we present to you, our readers, a long list of honourable mentions. Our annual top ten, like our best Canadian list,…

  • Incendiary – interview with Brendan Garrone

    Incendiary – interview with Brendan Garrone

    Hellbound’s Garren Ustel interviewed Incendiary vocalist Brendan Garrone earlier this year. Check out their conversation below. Hellbound: How did you first get into the hardcore scene? Was it more old-school or new-school stuff that drew you in? Brendan: My exposure to hardcore was really driven by the local scene on Long Island. I got into…