Search results for: “agalloch”

  • More Maryland Deathfest 2014 – going full bore at MDF

    … I’m not too familiar with their material, although I know how legendary their albums are, particularly Death Shall Rise. What I can say is that they were very good, and a worthy addition to the festival. Their sound is very typical and solid old school death metal. I saved my energy for Agalloch, a…

  • Musk Ox – Woodfall

    I’ve long been struck by the emotional heaviness that Nathanaël Larochette is able to wring from a single acoustic guitar. While Musk Ox’s genre classification is technically “neofolk,” I’ve always felt that this act in particular is an excellent aesthetic companion to extreme metal (quite similar, in fact, to the more minimalist offerings of bands…

  • Todtgelichter – Angst

    By Kyle Harcott With zero foreknowledge of Hamburg’s Todtgelichter, I took a chance on their latest offering, Angst, based on its striking, this-is-black-metal? cover(which, at first glance, vaguely reminded me of Mono’s Hymn to the Immortal Winds). I’m glad I took a chance on it because, while suitably virulent, Angst shows the kind of ambition…

  • Wayfarer & Wode – Glasgow, UK – April 28th, 2023

    … nods towards progressive metal. 2020 witnessed the Americans release their fourth album, A Romance with Violence. Most of the set comes from this full-length, including The Iron Horse (Gallows Frontier, Act II), Fire and Gold and Vaudeville. Many of the tracks possess a reflective and mournful outlook on how the West was won, perfectly…

  • Hellbound Staff Interrogations #13: Natalie Zed

    … Wills was a brain-rearranging show that still stands out in my mind. Back before I even wrote live reviews, seeing Devin Townsend (who was dipping a toe back into the touring pool after swearing it off for years) open for Cynic and Between the Buried and Me with my dear friend Dani Couture was…

  • Staff playlists: deep summer picks

    … leading up to the August long weekend are about family, and this can make for an extremely diverse (and sometimes less than ideal) soundtrack. This year we’ve got a reggae fan fresh back from Jamaica and some Lady Gaga appreciation added to the mix, but I’ve also got a niece who likes her music heavy and…

  • Hellbound Q & A with… Terese Fleming of Scarab Productions

    … little hints on their facebook page – if they even have a facebook page [laughs]. Send them emails telling them to come to Noctis and to Canada! I was talking to the MDF guys, who were at our conference lat year, and they said they asked Bolt Thrower every year of MDF, until they…

  • Noctis Valkyries 5: Hell Comes To Cowtown

    … s bouncy fungrind. Between sets, I headed out to the hallway to check the merch situation, only to find that the majority of it was almost entirely wiped – by 7PM! A plague of merch-hungry, metal-starved Calgarian locusts had descended, and my hopes of getting a vinyl copy of Agalloch’s Faustian Echoes were long…

  • Man, whatever happened to my Woods of Ypres “Batman” shirt…

    … the fucking thing seems to have disappeared… First, a little back story.  When I moved to Toronto in 2005, one of the first concerts I saw was Day of the Equinox, a festival featuring a buncha bands that were on The End Records at the time, such as Green Carnation, Agalloch, November’s Doom and…

  • Fall Into Darkness 2009 DVD

    … Darkness. Scheduled for several nights around Halloween, the festival offers an eclectic combination of extreme metal, ambient, and pagan-influenced music more in celebration of the roots of Halloween rather than its more popular, tacky appeal. 2009’s three-day lineup was especially strong, featuring such bands as YOB, Ludicra, Agalloch, and Earth, and luckily for those…