Category: Features

  • Iron Maiden @ GM Place, Vancouver BC, June 24, 2010

    Iron Maiden live is more than just a concert — it’s an event. In the days and hours prior to the show, the host city girds its loins in preparation for a pilgrimage of epic proportions. Because the fans aren’t just fans — they’re an army.

  • Hellbound Handshake Clip of the Week: TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION live at MDF 2010

    Here is installment #2 of the Hellbound Handshake Clip of The Week! This week it is TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION Live at Maryland Deathfest 2010, as captured by Handshake Inc.

  • Justin Pearson: The Hellbound Interview

    A striking passage of the Bad Religion song “Latch Key Kids” reads: “In this world today there ain’t nobody to thank/Just blame it on the kids and toss ’em into the tank.” Those lyrics seem applicable to a young kid growing up in the 1980s named Justin Pearson, best known as the bug-suited vocalist and…

  • Handshake Inc. Films Sequel to Maryland Deathfest: The Movie

    As for the content itself, I asked Hall, who prefers the Cinema Verite approach to filmmaking, if he and Cardoso had given the crew specific instructions as to what images they were to capture, he said that he preferred not to. “I just decided to let them film the images that invoked something in them,…

  • Hellbound Handshake Clip Of The Week: GORGUTS Live at MDF 2010

    Introducing the Hellbound Handshake Clip of The Week! This week it is GORGUTS Live at Maryland Deathfest 2010

  • Iggy And The Stooges Return From The Brink

    “We got asked a lot if it was supposed to be a tribute show or something; you couldn’t blame the writers for asking that, because it does happen that some dudes package up an old deal like a shtick. That’s not the case here; the way they play these new songs, they don’t do ’em…

  • Vilipend – Detonating Metallic Parameters

    The beastly grit of doom. Grindcore’s fiery onslaught. Black metal’s confrontational excess. The jarring obtuseness of tech. Metal is founded on explosive, aggressive and often combative attitudes. Still, just when one feels remotely comfortable—possibly slightly expectant—as to what the genre’s next twist will be, something so dominant, furious and volatile comes along that it redefines…

  • Blasphemy Blog: Arckanum – Rapid Re-Issue Reviews

    By Ola Mazzuca After releasing seven full-length albums, two demos and six EPs, the musical project of Johan “Shamaatae” Lahger, otherwise known as Arckanum, blonde roots beneath a black façade certainly show. Though his enterprise has not been acknowledged enough for a fantastic musical aura, the underlying influence on the rise of black metal in…

  • Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax Are Coming To a Canadian Theater Near You June 22nd!

    I am sure by now you all have heard about how “the Big Four” are finally playing together this summer, albeit only in Europe at massive summer festivals. Well, if you live in Canada and can’t make it overseas this summer, maybe a trip to your local movie theatre will suffice? Read below to find…

  • Nachtmystium – Not so black metal

    While the practice of genre blending is nothing new to the world of metal, few bands have taken it to the extremes that Chicago band Nachtmystium have. Built on a strong foundation of second wave black metal, that band have evolved progressively into a psychedelic, industrial and post punk fueled black metal behemoth, culminating in…