Category: PSA
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Heavy Metal Canada Day, eh? The throwback edition
Here at Hellbound it’s been our practice to honour our Canadian origins with regular celebrations of Canadian heavy metal. We do this every year’s end with our top Canadian albums lists, but we also do this every July 1, Canada Day, when we Canucks celebrate our nation’s birthday. This year’s post is, in part, a…
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Summer festing in Canada, metal style
A brief look ahead at a few Canadian music festivals of interest to metal fans… If you know of anything we’re missing, let us know! MONTEBELLO ROCKFEST June 22-25, 2017, QC www.montebellorockfest.com Rammstein, Megadeth, Meshuggah, Dee Snider, All That Remains, Soulfly, Protest the Hero, Entombed AD, Ensiferum, Tesseract, Converge, Kataklysm, Blinded by Faith… Metalocalypstick Fest 2017…
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Spring festing in Canada, metal style (part 1)
CEMR Metalfest April 6-9, 2017 Headliners: Plant Eater (Saskatchewan), Display of Decay (Alberta), Terrifier (BC) Presented by CEMR Metalfest and Voxx Promos S/T- Ep by Planet Eater – SK Dust of Existence by display of decayhttp://thesludgelord.blogspot.ca/2017/01/terrifier-album-premiere-canadian.html 420 Music & Arts Festival April 20-22, 2017 Headliners: WO FAT (Dallas, TX), ANCIIENTS (Vancouver), BLACK MASTIFF (Edmonton/Vancouver) Distortion,…
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ANNIHILATOR, EXCITER, RAZOR & SACRIFICE lined up for Calgary Metalfest
The fifth annual Calgary Metalfest takes place September 14-17, 2016, culminating in an arena show loaded with classic Canadian thrash. This might not be news to you – tickets went on sale back in May. But as the countdown ticks on, you might be due for a welcome reminder. A kick-off party gets things going…
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Looking for some live metal this week/end? (Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal)
While going through the Hellbound inbox I found a message from earlier this month – an email letting us know of some bands crossing the border into Canada this weekend and asking for a little help spreading the word. Finding myself with the time to check out their Bandcamp pages, I decided to take the next step and…
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One Band to Rule Them All: Wacken Metal Battle Canada Finals 2016
The final round of this year’s Wacken Metal Battle Canada competition takes place at Toronto’s Opera House this Saturday, June 11. Whichever band emerges victorious will be the fourth Canadian metal artist to represent our nation on the international Metal Battle stage at Wacken Open Air in Germany – a competition that’s been running for more than a decade. Several…
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New Canadian metal releases: the May 2016 edition
It’s been over a month since our last Canuck metal roundup here at Hellbound, so it’s about time we recapped some more new Canadian metal releases. As always, feel free to comment to let us know of any releases we’ve missed. We’d also like to hear if you find this kind of roundup useful or not,…
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Heavy Metal vs Cancer in Kitchener, ON
Kitchener Metalfest May 28th, 2016 @ The Wax Kitchener Metalfest is a non-profit fundraising event for the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre and a showcase of local and upcoming metal bands, four years running and getting bigger each year. Still need some additional motivation? How about raffle prizes like a Soilwork package donated by Dirk Verbeuren and…
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Canadian metal new release round-up: April 2016 edition
Another Hellbound / Kill Eat Exploit the Weak run down of recent Canadian metal releases… Let us know if something heavy and Canadian has come out lately and missed our notice. Catching up: Frostbite – Etching Obscurity released 5 Feb 2016 (Montreal, Québec) Etching Obscurity by Frostbite Alder – Sun Worshipper released 20 Feb 2016…
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Black Absinthe – “Winter” track premiere
Hellbound is happy to present “Winter,” the latest track from Early Signs Of Denial, the debut studio album from modern heavy metal band Black Absinthe. The Toronto (ON, Canada) three-piece was formed in 2011 by vocalist and guitarist Jack Cerre, bassist Kyle Scarlett and drummer Austin Henderson. They released their debut EP, Augusta, in 2012…