Category: Features
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Cosmic Echoes: a conversation with Pyramids on Mars
Pyramids on Mars have released Echo Cosmic, which is easily the finest instrumental metal album since Joe Satriani’s seminal Surfing With the Alien. It is by turns inspiring, jaw dropping, progressive and uplifting. Pyramids on Mars are what metal could be, but increasingly (and sadly) is not. This is metal to banish the blues and…
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I love what I love… Hellbound’s 2015 Q&A with Phil Anselmo
Phil Anselmo needs little introduction to metalheads. He is best known as the frontman of the platinum-selling titans Pantera, but there is also Down and Superjoint to name but a few of his well-known bands. He recently spoke with Hellbound’s Jay Gorania, a week before setting out with Superjoint on Danzig’s Blackest of the Black tour,…
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Van Halen – s/t
The thing about albums which are truly progressive (to be clear, I’m referring to albums which break new ground – not necessarily prog rock albums) is that their impact on pop music as a whole takes a bit of time to really register. Sure, there’s a chance that they might break through, win fans and…
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Amorphis throwback (rocking it like it’s 2001)
To mark the release of the latest Amorphis album, Under the Red Cloud, let’s go back to a more innocent time—April 2001, to be precise—when Hellbound editor Laura Wiebe interviewed the band before a show in Toronto. They were touring to promote Am Universum, and her freewheeling conversation with Esa (Holopainen, guitar) and Niclas (Etelävuori,…
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Staff picks & playlists: end of summer edition
Another round of playlists and picks from the Hellbound team. In this edition we look back on our soundtracks for the summer (or, in one case, winter) that was and forward to the new season ahead with some recommendations and anticipation. Justin Allec Summer Listening: Khemmis – Absolution Tau Cross Deceased – Surreal Overdose Amorphis…
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Full Metal Parenting #9: Tom Campagna interview
We often take a reflective viewpoint here at Full Metal Parenting. Matt and I frequently talk about what we’ve learnt about parenting over the years. We talk about our successes, failures and/or frustrations. And we try to present some words of encouragement gleaned from all the experiences parenting can offer. We want to keep things…
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Recent recommendations (from a few metal-leaning scholars)
As a Hellbound reader, you may know (or not) that your friendly neighbourhood editor is also a university professor – one who makes no secret of her metallic musical taste. Around the university, I mostly encounter people who don’t know much about metal music, who are indifferent or, occasionally, who are outright hostile to the…
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Fredericton: GREBER video premier and tour dates
GREBER‘s latest full-length, Kiln Hardened Psalms, came out late last year but the momentum is still building. The newest result? A video for one of the most ferocious tracks on a seriously (but not too serious) ferocious record. Bassist Marc Bourgon took the time to answer a few questions: Why this song, “Fredericton”? Fredericton has been…
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Patrick Macnee (February 6, 1922- June 25, 2015) – An Appreciation
This is an appreciation, not an obituary, because Patrick Macnee (February 6, 1922- June 25, 2015) led a life worth living, a life full of light, one such as only being so near to death, as he was in World War 2, can give you. A few weeks ago I wrote about the passing of…
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It’s Canada Day! (2015)
With Hellbound’s primary editorial and web resources overseas, we bring you a nostalgic retrospective of Canada Day features past. We have also declared it national Rush day in Finland. Heavy Canada Day retrospective: The very first Hellbound Canada Day special (2009): STAFF PICKS: FAVOURITE CANADIAN METAL ALBUMS Canada Day – the sequel (2010): STAFF/GUEST PICKS: FAVOURITE RUSH ALBUM…