Category: Staff Picks
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Hellbound Year End 2016: Steve Earles
Hellbound’s End of Year Wrap Up Begins: Part 1 Well, hell’s bells – 2016 was a hellride of a year, wasn’t it?! As the New Year comes creeping in with trepidation, the individual members of Team Hellbound take a look back at our favourites of the year, give our personal thoughts on the state of heavy metal…
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Canadian metal playlist – Canada Day 2016
Hellbound is based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. This year, on July 1st, 2016, Canada turns 149 years old. Canada’s first contribution to the pre-history of heavy metal was (according to Wikipedia)* a band called The Sparrows, which formed in 1964 and went on to become Steppenwolf. Canadian heavy metal band Anvil released the album Metal on Metal in 1982.…
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Ten Metal Albums You Might Have Missed in 2015
With so much damn fine metal coming out these days, it’s hard to encapsulate the awesome into a single annual top-ten list. Hundreds, if not thousands, of albums are released every year, and a significant percentage of them don’t suck. As a result, many deserving candidates don’t receive due critical and fan recognition, whether by…
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A valentine’s playlist: romance, heavy metal style?
This week I was asked if I would come up with (and be willing to defend) a top five list of the most romantic songs of all time. I said no. I don’t consider myself to be particularly romantic, and my tastes are fairly particular, so I hardly felt qualified to speak about romantic music in…
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Canuck Metal You Don’t Wanna Miss: the best Canadian metal of 2015
Here at Hellbound we get a great deal of satisfaction from promoting the Canadian metal releases we most appreciate, and one of the highlights of this ongoing coverage is our annual end-of-year Canadian metal feature. Which, disappointingly, didn’t happen this year. We haven’t yet mastered time travelling technology, so we can’t go back and give it another…
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Events You Don’t Want to Miss, Toronto – January 2016
Starting the new year off right with a plethora of performances here, as the cold winter nights seem to only encourage Torontonians to rock out even harder. Ranging from the irresistible blackened doom of Old Witch to relentlessly wild thrash of Brutal Wulfsex, and the hot ticket of Sleep with Montreal sweethearts Big Brave, there…
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Year-in-review 2015: Laura Wiebe
As another year draws to a close, we metalheads tend to take time to reflect on what the year in metal meant to us, and prepare our various lists of what was great, what sucked, and everything in between. This year we decided to get a little more up close and personal with Team Hellbound,…
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Year-in-review 2015: Jay Gorania
As another year draws to a close, we metalheads tend to take time to reflect on what the year in metal meant to us, and prepare our various lists of what was great, what sucked, and everything in between. This year we decided to get a little more up close and personal with Team Hellbound,…
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Year-in-review 2015: Adam Wills
As another year draws to a close, we metalheads tend to take time to reflect on what the year in metal meant to us, and prepare our various lists of what was great, what sucked, and everything in between. This year we decided to get a little more up close and personal with Team Hellbound,…
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Year-in-review 2015: Kyle Harcott
As another year draws to a close, we metalheads tend to take time to reflect on what the year in metal meant to us, and prepare our various lists of what was great, what sucked, and everything in between. This year we decided to get a little more up close and personal with Team Hellbound,…