Tag: best metal

  • A NEW YEAR, MORE NEW (IN) METAL: 2017, PART 1b

    A NEW YEAR, MORE NEW (IN) METAL: 2017, PART 1b

    Last week, in part 1, we noted that there’s too much going on in metal these days to leave all our ‘best of’ and year-in-review lists to December. Now a few more Hellbounders have chimed in on what’s caught their ears so far in 2017. Check out their highlights (and the odd disappointment) below. Metal…

  • Year-in-review 2015: Rob Kachluba

    Year-in-review 2015: Rob Kachluba

    As another year draws to a close, we metalheads tend to take time to reflect on what the year in metal meant to us, and prepare our various lists of what was great, what sucked, and everything in between. This year we decided to get a little more up close and personal with Team Hellbound,…

  • Year-in-review 2015: Adrien Begrand

    Year-in-review 2015: Adrien Begrand

    As another year draws to a close, we metalheads tend to take time to reflect on what the year in metal meant to us, and prepare our various lists of what was great, what sucked, and everything in between. This year we decided to get a little more up close and personal with Team Hellbound,…

  • Best of the rest – 2014 metal (part 1): instrumental and short releases

    Best of the rest – 2014 metal (part 1): instrumental and short releases

    Best instrumental metal of 2014 Horrendous, “When the Walls Fell.” I can’t get fully behind Horrendous’s ambitious second album, finding its blend of death metal and old-school metal melodies a little slipshod compared to Arsis a decade ago, but there are a few very promising moments, especially this instrumental from late in the record. These guys…