Category: Features

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS – July 2009

    Find out what HELLBOUND’s contributors are listening to going into the month of July. 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. We also have 3 special guest lists from members of the music industry that we like…

  • Staff Picks: Favourite Canadian Metal Albums

    With July 1st being our nation’s official birthday here in Canada, we thought we’d try to do something to pay honour to the many great bands and albums in the metal realm that our ten provinces and three territories have given birth to. We asked Hellbound’s regular contributors to write a paragraph or two about…

  • Watch Black Metal Doc Trailer Here, Now

    Until The Light Takes Us is the upcoming documentary examining the Norwegian Black Metal scene including the church burnings and the murder of Oystein Aarseth/Euronymous.

  • Epica: Classical Conspirators

    Despite the fact that symphonic metal has become a very popular metal subgenre over the last decade or so, and although it’s become commonplace for metal bands to employ full orchestras on their studio albums, it’s not every day that a band is afforded the opportunity to perform live with a full orchestra behind them.…

  • Eluveitie: Evocation 1 – The Arcane Dominion

    Swiss band Eluveitie have reappeared with a new offering that is being billed as “an acoustic album” that is the first of a two-part concept series. Despite the use of the term “acoustic,” Evocation 1 is far from having a minimalist folk sound.

  • Saros: Collaborative Creativity and a Heavy Flow

    San Francisco boasts a long and well-recognized tradition of musical creativity. Not just an artefact of the past, this inventiveness has carried through to the present. Saros stands out among the Bay Area’s current crop of eclectic and talented artists, fusing multiple influences and personalities into a flowing inundation of moody aggression.

  • Label profile: Shadow Kingdom Records

    Taking the name of his label from the first of writer Robert E. Howard’s fantastical Kull story series, it’ll probably come as no surprise that Shadow Kingdom Records’ and Distro deals extensively in material where swords, shields, impossibly tall marble castles and scenic green hills are stained claret-red with the remnants of some mythical battle…

  • Staff Picks: Our Fave Maiden Albums

    The Hellbound staff wax poetic about their favourite Maiden album.

  • Fatalist: Rechanneling Swedish Death Metal In Ventura County

    While the classic Swedish death metal scene of the late eighties and early nineties has influenced today’s scene immeasurably, there are legions of new metal fans today that have yet to discover classic bands like Nihilist, Carnage, Unleashed and Grave. The retro thrash movement is of course all the rage as of late, but not…

  • HELLBOUND To Co-Sponsor BURIED INSIDE Summer Tour

    Ottawa, ON’s BURIED INSIDE has announced a cross-Canada tour in support of their brand new album Spoils Of Failure and HELLBOUND is proud to announce we have been asked to co-sponsor the tour along with the fine folks over at Lambgoat.com.