Category: Features
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Internal Bleeding: Interview with Chris Pervelis in Oakland CA, June 6, 2017
Internal Bleeding was out on tour with Vader late this spring, alongside Sacrificial Slaughter, Voices Of Ruin, and Micawber. When the tour hit the Oakland Metro on June 6, Hellbound’s Todd Owens had a chance to speak with guitarist Chris Pervelis. Check out the video below (or through our Youtube channel) to hear what Chris…
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Summer festing in Canada, metal style
A brief look ahead at a few Canadian music festivals of interest to metal fans… If you know of anything we’re missing, let us know! MONTEBELLO ROCKFEST June 22-25, 2017, QC www.montebellorockfest.com Rammstein, Megadeth, Meshuggah, Dee Snider, All That Remains, Soulfly, Protest the Hero, Entombed AD, Ensiferum, Tesseract, Converge, Kataklysm, Blinded by Faith… Metalocalypstick Fest 2017…
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EXHUMED interview: Matt Harvey in Oakland, 23 May 2017
Matt Harvey returns to Hellbound – this time to talk about EXHUMED. (If you missed Gene Gaona’s Matt Harvey interview focused on his work with GRUESOME, check it out.) Near the end of May, Matt was back in California with Exhumed to record new material and play a couple of home state gigs, and while in Oakland, he…
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Aaron Turner – “The Lost Interview” – November, 2012
Hydra Head Records is an independent label that first captured my attention when I was a young man just getting into hardcore and more underground metal. The outfit prides itself on its stellar roster and discography of extreme metal music. HHR was founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner of Sumac (and Old Man Gloom,…
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WARBRINGER interview: John Kevill in Oakland CA, 22 May 2017
“The band’s called Warbringer so it’s gotta blow your head off…” Warbringer is currently on tour with Destruction and Jungle Rot. Hellbound’s Todd Owens met up with vocalist and founding member John Kevill in Oakland to chat about the new album, reconstructing the band (twice), great heavy metal and much more. Check out the interview…
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JUNGLE ROT Interview: Dave Matrise in Oakland, 22 May 2017
Tune in below or through our Youtube channel for Hellbound’s latest video interview: Mean Gene’s chat with Dave Matrise from Jungle Rot, in which they discuss hunting, the Kenosha underground punk scene, Dave losing his soul at a Venom show, and much more! The interview: On camera: Gene A. Gaona. Behind the camera: Todd Owens. Recorded…
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Chris Cornell – An Appreciation
This is not something I ever thought I’d be writing, and doing so makes me deeply sad, but it must be done. Chris Cornell’s departure from this life came as a massive shock to all of us who love his music, so what must it have been like for his family and friends? Our thoughts and…
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Say Hello 2 Heaven – A Tribute to Chris Cornell
Right now I shouldn’t be writing these words down for you. It doesn’t makes sense. In fact nothing about the night of May 17th, 2017, seems to make much sense in hind site. Chris Cornell, lead vocalist and guitarist of Soundgarden and super group Audioslave took his own life that night. We may very well…
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Interview: Albert Bell of Sacro Sanctus
Albert Bell is one of metal’s great characters, well known in his native Malta and beyond. Not content with his sterling work with Nomad Son and Forsaken, in recent years he has produced two outstanding albums with his most recent band Sacro Sanctus. Albert kindly took the time to give me a most illuminating and entertaining,…
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Hellbound Staff Interrogation: Todd Owens
Hellbound first ran a series of staff interrogations to celebrate our second anniversary. Since then we’ve published a lot more metal coverage (and a little non-metal too), and our contributor list has continued to evolve. As we approach another birthday, this time marking eight years in action, we figured it was time to properly introduce…