Category: Staff Picks
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Best metal album art of 2014
My favourite metal art of 2014 doesn’t come from an album cover, but a poster. I’ve been a great admirer of Costin Chioreanu for a couple years, and with time the Romanian artist’s work just keeps getting better and better. He was commissioned to do the poster art for the Roadburn Festival this past year,…
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Worst metal album art of 2014
Sometimes great albums have great cover art. Sometimes the worst art disguises the best metal. And sometimes bad art and bad music are in perfect (dis)harmony. Here are Hellbound’s picks for some of the worst album art of 2014. Adrien Begrand Getting CDs in the mail is getting rarer and rarer these days, but every so…
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Best metal events of 2014
Between us, we Hellbound folk make it out to a fair number of shows, festivals and other metal events throughout the year. Here are some of the ones that impressed us most in 2014. Adrien Begrand I was lucky enough to see a great deal of memorable shows over the course of 2014, in wide…
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my best of 2004 (aka, I keep getting older)
As some of you may know, well before I began my metal writing “career” (well, aside from a couple of regrettable, really badly written reviews for the excellent Chronicles of Chaos) I was spinning metal on campus radio. After a break of several years I returned to radio at CFMU 93.3 FM (the McMaster University…
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BEST OF 2014 – our contributors’ top Canadian picks (individual lists)
Here are our contributors’ individual picks for best Canadian metal albums of 2014. Happy new year from Hellbound.ca! Justin Allec Beyond Creation – Earthborn Evolution (Season of Mist) Nuclearhammer – Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer (Nuclear War Now!) Menace Ruine – Venus Armata (Profound Lore) Viathyn – Cynosure (indie) Culted – Oblique to all Paths (Relapse)…
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Hellbound’s best of 2014: our Canadian metal top 10
The Best Canadian Metal Albums of 2014 Edited by Adrien Begrand Compared to 2013, which was one of the strongest years for Canadian metal in recent memory, 2014 was largely all about underground discoveries rather than, say, the “usual suspects” that churn out material year after year. Sure, a mainstay like Devin Townsend once again…
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BEST OF 2014 – our contributors have their say (individual lists)
How did we come up with our collective top 20 metal albums of the year? Our contributors sent in their lists, we did a little math, and well, you can see the result (congratulations, Pallbearer!). But if you’re curious, here are our individual lists, full of commonalities but also revealing Hellbounders’ wide-ranging tastes. Thanks for a 2014…
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Hellbound’s best of 2014: metal albums of the year (#1-5)
Hellbound’s best of 2014 year-end coverage continues with the last installment in our definitive top 20 metal albums of the year list. Part four features the records that ranked highest in our collective esteem: the final five. You’ll note that Behemoth and YOB might have to duke it out if either one wants sole claim of the #2 spot, though really,…
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Hellbound’s best of 2014: metal albums of the year (#6-10)
Hellbound’s end-of-the-year metal coverage continues with the first batch of the heaviest hitters – the releases that came in #6-10 in our best metal albums of 2014 tally. There might be a touch of nostalgia here, or a hint of our relative agedness in our tastes, or maybe it’s just that these bands just really know…
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Hellbound’s best of 2014: honourable mentions (#11-15)
Hellbound’s 2014 year-end coverage continues this week with the next installment in our collective top 20. Part two features the albums that ranked in the #11-15 slots once we tallied the votes. AGALLOCH – The Serpent & The Sphere (Profound Lore) Revisiting this album in the dark of December seems perfect. Released on a warm…