Category: Features
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Interview: Mandroid Echostar
Guelph-based progressive metal band Mandroid Echostar is bassist Adam Richards, guitarist Sam Pattison, drummer Matt H-K, guitarist/keyboardist James Krul, guitarist Stephen Richards and vocalist Michael Ciccia. The band released Coral Throne, their third record (and second full-length) on January 15, 2016. A month or so after the new record became available, Michael Ciccia spared Hellbound some time, answering a…
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Ten Metal Albums You Might Have Missed in 2015
With so much damn fine metal coming out these days, it’s hard to encapsulate the awesome into a single annual top-ten list. Hundreds, if not thousands, of albums are released every year, and a significant percentage of them don’t suck. As a result, many deserving candidates don’t receive due critical and fan recognition, whether by…
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A valentine’s playlist: romance, heavy metal style?
This week I was asked if I would come up with (and be willing to defend) a top five list of the most romantic songs of all time. I said no. I don’t consider myself to be particularly romantic, and my tastes are fairly particular, so I hardly felt qualified to speak about romantic music in…
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Canadian Metal – New Release Round-Up: February 2016, part 1
Welcome to the second edition of Hellbound’s Canadian metal new release round-up, courtesy of Kill Eat Exploit the Weak and CFMU. As before, please feel free to let us know of anything new we’ve missed in this list – we’d love to hear about it. Canadian Metal Releases: January 24 – February 12, 2016 Black Wizard…
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new Canadian metal: January release round-up
Heavy Metal Adam and I are always trying to track down the latest Canadian metal releases for our weekly radio show, Kill Eat Exploit the Weak, on CFMU. We play selections from what we find on the air, and post our playlists to the KEEW blog, but we figured some of you might appreciate a…
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Canuck Metal You Don’t Wanna Miss: the best Canadian metal of 2015
Here at Hellbound we get a great deal of satisfaction from promoting the Canadian metal releases we most appreciate, and one of the highlights of this ongoing coverage is our annual end-of-year Canadian metal feature. Which, disappointingly, didn’t happen this year. We haven’t yet mastered time travelling technology, so we can’t go back and give it another…
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Cromlech: ascending to new heights
In the first entry of the 2016 edition of our ongoing series, Danielle Griscti takes some time to indulge in the sword-worshipping doom of Toronto’s CROMLECH. Commanding the attention of loyal listeners isn’t easy but CROMLECH are up to the task.. Below they answer a few questions about their past, present and future frolics. Battles won We…
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Events You Don’t Want to Miss, Toronto – January 2016
Starting the new year off right with a plethora of performances here, as the cold winter nights seem to only encourage Torontonians to rock out even harder. Ranging from the irresistible blackened doom of Old Witch to relentlessly wild thrash of Brutal Wulfsex, and the hot ticket of Sleep with Montreal sweethearts Big Brave, there…
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Hellbound’s Best Metal Albums of 2015
Hellbound’s best of 2015 year-end coverage continues with the last instalment in our definitive top 10 metal albums of the year list. 15 writers submitted 104 different albums, and we’ve narrowed down the best of the best. We proudly present Hellbound’s best metal albums of 2015. 10. Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower (Relapse) I’m probably one of the…
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Requiescat in pace, Lemmy Kilmister
Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister 1945 – 2015 Today we at Hellbound mourn the loss of Lemmy Kilmister, beloved rock and roll scoundrel most immortally known as the founder, vocalist, bassist and guiding light of the much-revered Motörhead. Two days after his 70th birthday on December 24, 2015, Lemmy was diagnosed with an “extremely aggressive” cancer, according to…