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?

  • Mr. Death: Detached From Life

    Mr. Death will appeal to old school death metal follows of Dismember, Grave and Entombed and is definitely worth searching out.

  • Coalesce: OX EP

    Following their post-hiatus full-length OX which was released this summer, the 7-track set is more of the same – a short collection of completely astounding music.

  • Fashion Bomb: Visions of the Lifted Veil

    “Visions of the Lifted Veil” is the sophomore album from Fashion Bomb. The cover art displays the band looking water-drowned gothic in front of a rainy post apocalyptic Chicago background. Their sound isn’t very gothic sounding. The closest they really get is some of the guitar sounds remind me a lot of Marilyn Manson.

  • THE RETURN OF KEVI METAL’S RIMSHOTS!

    Those of you who were disciples to Adrian Bromley’s Unrestrained! are well familiar with Rimshots. Those of you who read Decibel (and there’s absolutely no reason not to!) may have noticed a similar, digital-age inspired endeavour entitled ‘Tweets for Twats.’ Those of you old enough to remember will notice how I ripped this idea off…

  • TOP CANADIAN ALBUMS – “Celebrity” Top 5s

    You’ve seen what we think the best Canadian Metal Albums of 2009 are , now see what some of our friends think too…

  • TOP CANADIAN ALBUMS – Individual Top 5s

    MELISSA ANDREWS 1. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon/Relapse 2. Cauldron – Chained to the Night – Earache 3. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee 4. Devin Townsend – Ki – Inside Out 5. Woods of Ypres -the Green Album – Practical Art ADRIEN BEGRAND 1. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence – Goodfellow/Nuclear…

  • HELLBOUND’s TOP 10 CANADIAN METAL ALBUMS OF 2009

    Since Hellbound.ca is a Canadian-owned and operated metal publication, we thought we’d do things a little differently than most. As 2009 quickly is coming to a close, we asked all of our contributors to pick their Top 5 Canadian metal albums of the year. We then tabulated up their responses and have created our first…

  • The Year Of Our Lord: Dead To You

    Ever hear of The Year Of Our Lord? Kudos if you have, because they were damn good. Some readers might have caught their 1999 EP or the 2002 self-titled release From Willowtip . I hadn’t heard any of their music until recently but I’m glad the Dead To You compilation showed up on my doorstep…

  • Black Breath: Razor to Oblivion

    Black Breath is the kind of metal that’s devoid of any pretension whatsoever, just five scruffy guys hunkering down and coming up with some of the most bracing, rewarding circa-1985 retro metal you’ll hear these days.

  • Drudkh: Forgotten Legends

    The first of several Drudkh reissues from Season of Mist, Forgotten Legends captures the band’s early rumblings – a small collection of long songs recorded in the summer of 2002 and released as the band’s official debut. Album review by Laura Wiebe Taylor