Search results for: “agalloch”

  • Festival Review: Fortress Festival 2024

    … cathartic, gracious and loud, wrapping up the end of the festival in the best way they possibly could. Fortress Festival is a tremendous experience from the venue, to the seaside brine, to the array of bands that come internationally to provide such a wicked mix of sound, to the merch shops like Mercian Storm…

  • Staff playlists: the fall (and Canadian thanksgiving) edition

    … saying it’s fantastic. Suited for conquest and proudly contemplating Irish heritage. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=472Qh4l1pFU&list=PL0A9BC78E7541FC56) Gabe Hugh 1. Entombed – Wolverine Blues 2. Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys Parts 1 and 2 3. Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast 4. Opeth – Pale Communion 5. Agalloch – The Serpent and the Sphere Rob Hughes GOAT — Commune (Sub Pop)…

  • Noctis V Preview #3: Interview with ANCIIENTS’ Chris Dyck

    … a band, like, I don’t know, somebody like a Skeletonwitch or a Black Cobra or somebody who fits with us, musically. We wanna tour Canada really bad and see our country. And we’ll do that on our own if we have to. It’s a major goal for us next year, to get to the…

  • Blood Of The Black Owl – Light the Fires

    … what I like- FLUTE! But, for the record, the flute parts don’t sound like stupid Jethro Tull. They’re folksy-sounding, and add a novel touch to doom metal. There’s several different nature sound effects sprinkled into the album. This is one of those “nature-ey” bands, like Agalloch. The “nature metal” idea on this album is…

  • Hellbound Staff Interrogation #7: Laura Wiebe

    … subway helped us find our way to the venue, and a short time later I was steps away from Anathema in the flesh – a nearly transcendent experience. Back home, Day of the Equinox 2005 is definitely high up on my list of memorable concerts, with some of my favourite bands (Agalloch, Novembers Doom,…

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS – July 2009

    … Assembly – Millennium – Attic/Roadrunner 4. Annihilator – Set the World on Fire – Attic/Roadrunner 5. Ex Deo – Romulus – Nuclear Blast BOOK: Dan Simmons – The Fall of Hyperion FILM: Rear Window TOM TOTH 1. Stormwarrior – Heading Northe – Dockyard 1 2. Rotting Christ – Genesis – Century Media 3. Mors…

  • Year-in-review 2015: Renee Trotier

    … for a band that gets better with each release. Having long abandoned any/all core leanings, what we are left with is a definitively modern black metal album – pure and simple. It’s raw, emotionally harrowing metal that allows plenty of breathing room between passages of cold furiosity and beautiful, Agalloch-esque melody. Grab a shovel,…

  • HELLBOUND.CA’s TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS OF 2013

    … s transgressive nature with elements of black, thrash and classic metal is shown on “Leave No Cross Unturned.” With raw punk attitude and a thirst to render diverse sounds, these progenitors are doing just that, one crucifix at a time. (Ola Mazzuca) 7. VHOL – Vhol (Profound Lore) Featuring members of Agalloch and Hammers…

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS: February 2011

    … dead – Superball/century Media 2. Black Sabbath – Eternal Idol (2cd deluxe edition) – Sanctuary UK 3. Death – The Sound Of Perseverence (2cd reissue) – Relapse 4. Sodom – Of War and Pieces – SPV 5. TesseracT – One – Century Media Book: Life by Keith Richards Blu-ray disc: Top Gear season 15…

  • Hellbound Summer Metal Meltdown: July 17, 2010 Playlist

    … SACRIFICE – Anthem (The Ones I Condemn, 2009) KREATOR – Love Us Or Hate Us (Extreme Aggression, 1989) AUGURY – Brimstone Landscape (Fragmentary Evidence, 2009) HOODED MENACE – The House of Hammer (Never Cross The Dead, 2010) SIGH – Scarlet Dream (Imaginary Sonicscape, 2001) EVILWAR – Born by the Rape of One Beast (Unholy…