Wolfbane – s/t
Shadow Kingdom Records is like the Energizer Bunny. It keeps going and going and going with great releases one after another. One of their newest gems is this compilation by Wolfbane.
Reviews
Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic
Forget Dante Alighieri, Italian poet of the Middle Ages who detailed to his readers the punishments that awaited the damned in Hell. This is DANTE, a name which can only be spoken in the most gravelly of death metal tones. Based on Visceral Games’ recent bloody action game of the same name, the film is directed by Mike Disa and includes art and animation from a few different groups (including Asian animation group Production I.G.).
Jonathan Smith reviews Dante’s Inferno, the new animated film based on the Visceral Games videogame of the same name.
Burzum – Belus
However unsettling his crimes, however indefensible his comments and views, Varg Vikernes is one of the most creative forces in Norwegian black metal and Belus ample proof of his talent.
Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos
The band’s energy is admirable, though, and as flawed as this album is, it’s still nice to hear them performing with passion once again.
Nechochwen – Azimuths to the Otherworld
Azimuths to the Otherworld is an album that demands to be taken in from start to finish. It asks the listener to engage with its many atmospheric layers as they appear.
Destinity – XI Reasons To See
It might not be as de rigueur as Deathspell Omega, Gojira, or Hacride, but Destinity definitely deserves to be recognized as one of the stronger bands in this increasingly promising recent wave of French extreme metal.
High On Fire – Snakes For The Divine
Kyle Harcott reviews Snakes For The Divine, the brand new studio album by High On Fire and their first for new label E1 Metal Records.
Armour – s/t
File this one under holy shit: Finland’s Armour have just released one of the finest slabs of eighties fueled heavy metal to come across the desk over here at Chez Hellbound in quite some time.
GIMME AN R! – THE STORY OF BRIAN VOLLMER, LEAD VOCALIST OF HELIX
Gimme an R! is one of those books that’s so bad, it’s awesome.
Rotting Christ – Aealo
Listening to the new Rotting Christ over and over, I like it, but I want to like it more than I do. Aealo is powerful and dramatic, sometimes violent, eerie, complicated or just plain straight-ahead catchy – a black-death fusion of metal and eastern folk. But there’s something that doesn’t quite click, or at least hasn’t yet.