Category: Staff Playlists

  • Heavy metal in 2017 by Kyle Harcött

    Heavy metal in 2017 by Kyle Harcött

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy metal in 2017 by Jay H. Gorania

    Heavy metal in 2017 by Jay H. Gorania

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy metal in 2017 by Gruesome Greg

    Heavy metal in 2017 by Gruesome Greg

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy Metal in 2017 by Elena Francis

    Heavy Metal in 2017 by Elena Francis

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy Metal in 2017 by Matt Hinch

    Heavy Metal in 2017 by Matt Hinch

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy Metal in 2017 by Steve Earles

    Heavy Metal in 2017 by Steve Earles

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy metal in 2017 by Gene A. Gaona

    Heavy metal in 2017 by Gene A. Gaona

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Honourable mentions of 2017

    Honourable mentions of 2017

    We at Hellbound are nearly ready to weigh in on the best metal releases of 2017 with our collective top ten, as voted by the contributors. Before we share this overall ‘best of’ list, we present to you, our readers, a long list of honourable mentions. Our annual top ten, like our best Canadian list,…

  • Hellbound’s Halloween Playlist 2017: another spooky + heavy soundtrack

    Hellbound’s Halloween Playlist 2017: another spooky + heavy soundtrack

    It’s been a few years since the folks here at Hellbound put together a staff playlist for Halloween. This year we decided to give it another go, including some of the classics while challenging ourselves to expand our haunted horizons a little this time around. Here is what we came up with, along with a…

  • Best metal of 2017 so far, part 2

    Best metal of 2017 so far, part 2

    Back in April Hellbound shared some of our staff picks from the first few months of 2017 (part one | part one, b). Now it’s time for part two, the spring/summer edition: more new metal that’s been catching our ears. More 2017 heavy metal highlights according to Hellbound Gene A. Gaona Expulsion –  Nightmare Future Newcomer…