Category: Features

  • From the Archives: 2002 Interview with Down’s Pepper Keenan

    Things are a little quiet this week at Hellbound, as a bunch of us are away in Baltimore, MD at Maryland Deathfest. So, since we are away, here is a reprint of a story I did on one of this year’s headliners, DOWN, for their second album back in 2002.

  • Heavy Metal, Popular Culture, and Academia

    Heavy Metal, Popular Culture, and Academia

    “Importantly, the presentations often approached a generalized assumption that some group or groups of people hold about metal music or culture only to complexify the issue, demonstrating how research in particular locations, milieus, and demographics reveals the diversity in the ways people understand and engage with metal.” Laura Wiebe reports back on the first North…

  • Jeff Hanneman – Reign In Peace

    Hellbound Metal: written tributes by Hellbound writers to the recently deceased Jeff Hanneman of Slayer

  • CONTEST: Win tickets to see Fear Factory/Hate Eternal live in Toronto!

    Our good friends over at Collective Concerts have given Hellbound 2 pairs of tickets to see Fear Factory on their Toronto stop of current their North American tour! As the show is NEXT Wednesday (April 24, 201), the contest will be open until Sunday, April 21st at Midnight, so make sure to enter now!

  • Chicken Dinner with Quorthon

    In 1996, Hellbound’s Sean Palmerston was offered the chance to do the first ever in-person North American radio interview with Quorthon, leader and visionary behind legendary Swedish black metal act Bathory. They also went out for dinner together beforehand, and here are Sean’s memories of that fateful night some seventeen years ago, shared in public…

  • View From the Vault: Warpig Wails Again

    View From the Vault: Warpig Wails Again

    Originally published in VIEW Magazine in November 2006, this interview was with Warpig founding vocalist/guitarist Rick Donmoyer about the 2006 re-release of their self-titled album, originally released on Fonthill Records Canada on 1971

  • J.P. Gaster of Clutch: The Hellbound Interview

    “I think they would see the band touring and we had a very solid touring fanbase and we would sell a consistent amount of records album to album. And I think the record label saw that and they’d get excited about that and they thought to themselves “Well surely this band can sell this many…

  • Witchfinder Radio Playlists for the Week of February 11th, 2013

    Blowing Up The Lakehead Monday February 11th 11-11:30 Audrey Horne – Straight Into Your Grave (Youngblood) Dead Lord – Onkalo (Goodbye Repentance) Deville – The Knife (Hydra) Gozu – Irish Dart Fight (The Fury Of A Patient Man) Mother of God – Graenslandet (Anthropos) Helker – No Chance To Be Reborn (Somewhere In The Circle)…

  • Barge To Hell Cruise Recap Part 4

    In early December the inaugural BARGE TO HELL cruise sailed from Miami, FL to Nassau, Bahamas and back and featured live performances by forty-two metal bands. Hellbound.ca was lucky enough to have been able to send some of its contributors on the cruise and here is what they had to say about the performances that…

  • Seventeen Questions With… Titan (Canada)

    Earlier this month Toronto’s Titan saw their latest album “Burn” make Hellbound’s Top 10 Canadian Albums of 2012 list. Here is Matt Hinch’s recent interview with band vocalist James M. and guitarist Chris W. about the making of the album, touring Europe last summer and what else lies ahead for this emerging Canadian hardcore/metal act.