Category: Features

  • Meeting of the Metal Minded: The Noctis III Metal Festival and Conference

    In terms of metal fests, you’ve got your Milwaukees, your Maryland Deathfests, your Wackens, your Holes in the Sky, Dudefests, Hellfests, and so on—all of them well out of range of western Canadians. Thankfully, a new metallic mecca has sprung up in Alberta, at Calgary’s Noctis Festival. The third gathering (full title: Noctis III: Tritagonist)…

  • Interview with Metal Film and Music Video Director, Handshake Inc.’s David Hall

    The decision to create film and music videos for extreme underground metal bands was not exactly a conscious decision, but something that came to Hall organically. A fascination with the music, artistic innovativeness and raw talent (and the balls to contact and eventually build a professional and personal relationship with Today is the Day’s notoriously…

  • Hatebreed: Interview With Jamey Jasta

    He was the host of Headbangers Ball, he owns a few businesses, and he’s in two successful touring bands. On face value, one might think Jamey Jasta would have little to complain about, and even less angst to vent through hardcore music. But such criticism loses grounding when taking into consideration that he’s “turning negatives…

  • Photo gallery: Down @ Koolhaus, Toronto ON, Sept 18, 2009

    All photos by Adam Wills. All photos are the property of Adam Wills and Hellbound.ca – do not copy without written consent.

  • CONTEST: BLACK DAHLIA MURDER autographed CD/DVDs giveaway!

    eta: new rules!!! Like to win things? Yeah, us too! Well, courtesy of the fine folks over at Metal Blade we have two (2) copies of the brand new BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Deflorate album to give away. And if that in itself wasn’t good enough, these are the limited edition CD/DVD versions of the album…

  • Forest Stream’s Somn on Songwriting and Storytelling

    I asked Forest Stream if they consider their music to be driven more by emotion, storytelling, visual imagery, social interactions, or something else altogether. Somn replied:

  • Forest Stream: Nature and Society, Misery and Hope

    “Russia is a very good country in many ways, but that is also the country I, personally, hate many things about. The main issue causing this glaringly negative feeling is human indifference. Sometimes it reaches the top level of some sort of cold desperation, and it starts being felt like absolutely nobody cares about anything.…

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS: September 2009

    Find out what HELLBOUND’s contributors are listening to going into the month of September. Each writer has submitted their Top 5 list and have an option to list a book and a film they are into right now too.

  • Megadeth: From Vic’s Garage To Endgame With Shawn Drover

    The words “Megadeth” and “Dave Mustaine” are pretty much synonymous. In fact, we’d be willing to wager substantial sums of money that we don’t actually have that “Megadeth” and “Dave Mustaine” are far and away more synonymous with each other than “megadeath” and “Herman Kahn,” the gentleman who just happens to be the RAND military…

  • The Gathering: The Next Chapter

    When Anneke van Giersbergen announced her departure from The Gathering it was a shock – for many fans but for her bandmates as well. But shock doesn’t have to lead to death or paralysis, and in a sense The Gathering had been down this road before. Reinvention is a familiar enterprise for the Dutch alt…