Category: Features
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Full Metal Parenting #5: Anger
One of the first things my Full Metal Parenting co-conspirator, Matt, and I ever discussed, was the fact we’d both spent time in anger management classes. I can’t remember who brought the subject up first, but we shared a similar realisation that darkness was clouding our lives. Neither of us had been violent towards our…
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Crowned by Fire news and contest winners
Thanks to everyone who checked out the new Crowned by Fire video via Hellbound. We have copies of Space Music for Cave People for three lucky Hellbound readers: Lee Chavez, whose favourite space movie is WALL-E. Darth Grimby, whose favourite space movie (featuring epic music too) is Star Wars. Tim, whose favourite music movie is Tenacious…
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Agalloch in Toronto, July 4, 2014
AGALLOCH Serpens in Cvlmination North American Tour MMXIV with Jex Thoth and Vow of Thorns Friday, July 4th, 2014 at the Opera House in Toronto Photos by Danielle Griscti
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Staff playlists: deep summer picks
The northern summer is half way done – here are a few listening suggestions to help you enjoy the warm(ish) days and nights that are left in the form of the latest staff playlists. Some of our regular Hellbound staffers offer up their music picks for the cottage, camp site, beach or patio as we ease into…
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Crowned by Fire contest – Space Music for Cave People
While we were distracted by Canada Day celebrations up here in the hinterlands, a snarling beast from Los Angeles launched its latest global invasion campaign. That beast is called Crowned by Fire, the invasion campaign goes by the name Space Music for Cave People, and you can be among the next wave to succumb by winning…
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Blasphemous Meals #10 – Corpus Curry
Here I am at the tenth installment of Blasphemous Meals! I am nearly halfway through Bazillion Points’ Hellbent For Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook by Annick Giroux, and it’s been such an incredible journey. My confidence in cooking has grown significantly since I first attempted Proto Metal Lamb Shanks Braised in Burgundy by Warpig’s Dana…
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Hunters Re-Introduce Themselves
While Hunters’ smash self-titled album has been on record store shelves now for almost a year, the shine hasn’t faded from the album for the band yet. In fact, it still feels incredibly new for singer Izzy Almeida and singer/guitarist Derek Watson – and part of the reason why lies in the fact that the…
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Ken Mode announce European tour with Hark
The guys in Ken Mode are having a busy year following the success of their Juno-nominated 2013 album, Entrench. The last of their live summer prairie dates falls on July at the in Winnipeg. They’re scheduled to play the Housecore Horror Film Festival in Austin, Texas in October. And in between they’ll be swinging through…
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Dread Sovereign: Celebrating the vernacular of heavy metal
I first heard the distinctive Nemtheanga vocal assault in 2002 (yeah, I know, I was late to the party), when Primordial mesmerized me, in a pummelling sort of way, within the first blistering seconds of Storm Before Calm. The next year I was thrilled to discover that Primordial were set to play Summer Breeze, my…
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Full Metal Parenting #4: Interview with Jonathan Dick
In a few short years, Steel for Brains has become one of the most respected websites in this global metal community that we call home. Steel for Brains’ founder Jonathan Dick is regarded as one of the best interviewers out there, and he’s spoken to a lengthy list of metal’s legends and fascinating figures across…