Category: Features
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Inside Mastodon’s Next Revolution
The anticipation of getting to play Once More ‘Round The Sun – Mastodon’s sixth full-length album – has finally overcome drummer Brann Dailor. He has reached the point where he wants everyone to hear all of his band’s new album and to start playing it live. “I am so excited to start bringing this album…
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Canada Day 2014: Best Canadian metal from years ending in ‘4…
As Canada Day rolls around again, some of our regular Hellbound contributors have pitched in for another year of celebrating Canadian metal on the nation’s anniversary. This July we give you a snapshot of Canadian metal over the decades, selecting some highlights from 10, 20, 30 and 40 years in the past as well as…
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The best so far: celebrating five years of Hellbound.ca
Hellbound.ca turned 5 years old earlier this month and we’re ready to celebrate! Wow, I sometimes find it hard to imagine that this little webzine that we started oh so long ago is still around, but here we are, a little more than five years later. Hellbound.ca is still here, still turning out great features…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Gruve
Reports from the North by Northeast trenches Gruve at NXNE 2014 Hey Hellbound readers, my name’s Jay Pollmann. I play in the groove based dirt rock band GRUVE. Hellbound.ca asked us to document our NXNE experience this year and we gladly accepted the offer. We were thrilled to be a part of the 20th year…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Redanda
Reports from the trenches Redanda & Buddy-Boys at NXNE 2014 This is being written with a fairly heavy hangover, but hopefully that means our experience at NXNE 2014 is still fresh in the mind, however hazy. We departed from Hamilton (which a beer girl at the tents at Yonge & Dundas kindly referred to as…
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Amnesia Rockfest: outdoing themselves one year at a time
On some level, every show organizer and promoter wants to have the event that those who attended look back and remember as the most incredible thing they ever saw. The memories of seeing that moment when a band hit that perfect stride after having been mothballed for years or that chime when a baby band…
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NXNE 2014 Diaries: Sumo Cyco
NXNE 2014 – reports from the trenches It’s North by Northeast time in Toronto, that moment that comes every June when the city’s venues and the odd public space become host to ten days of music, film, comedy, art and interactive events. Hard to believe this has been going on for 20 years now! NXNE is not…
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Hopeless Youth
Montreal’s Hopeless Youth have been on the road since late May, touring in support of Disgust, their Candlelight Records debut. From the outside, it looks like their collective career has moved as quickly as their music. In two years (Hopeless Youth formed in 2012) they recorded an EP and album with engineer Frank Daniel Shooflar (Blessed By A…
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Throttle Down The Buzzsaws – Buzz Osborne Turns Down The Volume And Finds Another Voice
Buzz “King Buzzo” Osborne loves what he does. Since founding Melvins in 1983, the singer/guitarist has regularly reinvented the band to challenge fans and keep them guessing, making sure nothing about the group’s sound or direction becomes stale from album to album. He works incredibly hard at it, but he wouldn’t have it any other…
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Interview with Mike Hill of Tombs
Brooklyn black metal alchemists Tombs are set to release their third album entitled Savage Gold today. One of the year’s most anticipated albums, the follow up to 2011’s critically lauded Path of Totality delivers everything fans could expect it to. Hellbound’s Matt Hinch fired off a few questions to vocalist/guitarist/mastermind Mike Hill and his responses…