Category: Reviews – Audio

Glorious metal in all its earthly forms, compressed onto shiny plastic discs or into digital files. Which ones will become the soundtrack to your life?

  • Clamfight – I Vs. the Glacier

    Overall, this is a pretty solid sludge record. Nothing that I haven’t really heard before, but these guys do it fairly well.

  • Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance (30th Anniversary Edition)

    In listening to the reissue of Screaming For Vengeance, it suddenly becomes clear that, as “of its time” the production applied to the record was (the effects on “Electric Eye” – all the clanking reverb and robotic imagery – and the glammy metal sheen of “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” are good examples), the record…

  • Amenra – Mass V

    Overall, this isn’t a bad listen for fans of Neurosis, Zoroaster and the like. That said, I’m not sure this one’s a real winner—especially coming hot on the heels of the former’s latest record.

  • Atriarch – Ritual Of Passing

    Ritual of Passing is dirty, atmospheric, unsettling and cerebral. Turn down the lights, light some candles and really listen.

  • Graveyard – Lights Out

    Graveyard follow suit to their name, like a rusty tombstone, symbolizing age and progression over time. If cleaned properly, you’ll find a treasure once forgotten, or an antique piece like Lights Out, that just needs to be revisited.

  • Voivod – Target Earth

    Target Earth is one of those albums that many reviewers will spend more time talking about what is wrong with it than what is right. Since it is the first album to feature Mongrain and it is essentially the start of a new era, you can expect it to be compared over and over to…

  • Deftones – Koi No Yokan

    KNY may be Deftones most melodic album to date. However, they maintain enough crunch so as not to sound like they’ve gone soft.

  • LISTENING TO THE PAST: Death – Human

    “(Human) embodies much of metal’s concern for and obsession with material questions of existence. It remains special partly because of its historical importance for extreme metal, but also because it stands out as a prime example (out of many) that it is very possible to merge anger and aggression in extreme metal with a compassionate…

  • HELLBOUND’s TOP 10 CANADIAN METAL ALBUMS OF 2012

    Since Hellbound.ca is a Canadian-owned and operated metal publication, we do things a little bit different than most. While 2012 was coming to a close we asked all of our contributors to pick their Top Canadian metal albums of the year. We then tabulated up their responses and have created our fourth annual Top 10…

  • KISS – Monster

    KISS – Monster

    KISS has been providing songs which cater to that affection for forty years and their wellspring of inspiration is in no danger of drying up, as Monster proves.