Tag: Aura Noir

  • INTERVIEW: AURA NOIR’S AGGRESSOR, APRIL 2018

    INTERVIEW: AURA NOIR’S AGGRESSOR, APRIL 2018

    In anticipation of the sixth album from the blackened thrash titans, Hellbound’s Danielle Griscti got the chance to ask a few questions of AURA NOIR’s Aggressor. Hellbound: It’s been more than 20 years for Aura Noir, where do you keep finding the energy and inspiration to keep creating? Because we only work with the music…

  • Aura Noir @ Hard Luck Bar, Toronto, 13 October 2017

    Aura Noir @ Hard Luck Bar, Toronto, 13 October 2017

    Finally, one of the best black thrash metal bands crash lands in Toronto! Norway’s self-proclaimed ugliest band in the world, Aura Noir, are on their maiden North American tour and it feels like a long time coming. Formed in the nastier corners of Oslo in 1993, this three-piece are the masters of blistering bitching black thrash,…

  • Desaster – The Arts of Destruction

    Desaster – The Arts of Destruction

    With a few defeats and changes of members along the way, along with a fairly lengthy discography, Desaster are still campaigning like true survivors. Having never gained the sort of popularity or visibility of many of their German brethren, the band have remained a cult act, and their new album, The Arts of Destruction, isn’t…

  • Maryland Deathfest 2011 Recap Day 2

    Continuing on from our collected review of Thursday’s show, here is what we thought of the bands we saw which played Friday, Day two, of the 2011 Maryland Deathfest. Reviews by Adam Wills, Laura Wiebe, Kevin Stewart-Panko and Sean Palmerston, with photography by Albert Mansour.

  • Marduk / Aura Noir / Black Anvil / Panzerfaust / HOD @ the Wreckroom, Toronto ON, May 30, 2011

    Natalie Zed reviews the May 30th show by MARDUK, AURA NOIR, BLACK ANVIL, PANZERFAUST and HOD at Toronto’s Wreckroom

  • Noctis Metal Fest 2009: The Concerts

    Part two of Hellbound.ca’s coverage of the Noctis Metal Conference and Festival that happened earlier this year in Calgary, Alberta, in this segment Rob Hughes reviews the musical performances of the festival with a recap of the two nights worth of gigs. The first night featured sets by Ares Kingdom, Slough Feg and Novembers Doom,…

  • Meeting of the Metal Minded: The Noctis III Metal Festival and Conference

    In terms of metal fests, you’ve got your Milwaukees, your Maryland Deathfests, your Wackens, your Holes in the Sky, Dudefests, Hellfests, and so on—all of them well out of range of western Canadians. Thankfully, a new metallic mecca has sprung up in Alberta, at Calgary’s Noctis Festival. The third gathering (full title: Noctis III: Tritagonist)…