Tag: Calgary

  • Calgary 420 Music & Arts Fest 2018: Dopethrone and many more

    Calgary 420 Music & Arts Fest 2018: Dopethrone and many more

    Tickets are on sale and the line-up’s been announced for 420 Music & Arts Festival – presented by METALHEADS UNITED in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 19-21. Headlining this year are Sasquatch (Thursday), La Chinga (Friday), and Dopethrone (Saturday), plus Brant Bjork (Kyuss, Vista Chino) will be around on Friday, April 20, deejaying between bands and to close the…

  • Numenorean – Home

    Numenorean – Home

    If you’re looking for Canada’s answer to Inter Arma, look no further than Calgary-based outfit Numenorean. Their debut album Home encapsulates the epic, blackened, extended post-sludge forays of the Virginians’ Sky Burial, with five tracks spanning just shy of 45 minutes. The nine-minute title track opens the proceedings on a swirling, NeurIsian note, before the…

  • Wake – Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow

    Wake – Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow

    Writing about grindcore almost demands violent language: churn, blast, crush, ad nauseam. Descriptions follow a tried-and-tired vocabulary. You could fit Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow, the third full-length from Calgary grinders Wake, into that familiar mold. It would easily fit in some ways, but it wouldn’t exactly be accurate. I’m hedging against those…

  • False Flag – Nest of Vipers

    False Flag – Nest of Vipers

    False Flag‘s Nest of Vipers is an excellent EP that doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. Four tracks of prime groove metal. Reference points are Lamb of God, Exhorder, and of course, Pantera. What gives this its own identity is the level of musical virtuosity of the band members. There is also a genuine band dynamic and sincerity there.…

  • Chron Goblin – Life for the Living

    Don’t get me wrong, [Chron Goblin] could still be considered desert rock (hell, they even crossed the pond and played Desertfest), but there’s a bit more of a bluesy influence here, a little more up-tempo approach—but with some very heavy riffs thrown in for good measure.

  • And if we made our politicians pay $425 every time they showed up for work, we’d balance the budget in no time!

    I forgot that our brave legislators only listen to bands like the Eagles and Supertramp. Cuz with their new amendments to the country’s labour laws, Stephen Harper and company are making it so that crusty classic rockers and pre-fabricated pop tarts could be the only artists to ever come to Canada…

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

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

    Hellbound’s third preview of this month’s Noctis Fest in Calgary AB is a Q & A with ANCIIENTS guitarist Chris Dyck, as interrogated by Kyle Harcott

  • Hellbound’s Getting Stoked For… NOCTIS VALKYRIES 5!

    Hellbound’s Getting Stoked For… NOCTIS VALKYRIES 5!

    Kyle Harcott is going to Calgary at the end of the month to the Noctis Valkyries V Metal Fest and is pretty excited about it. Not only does he get to see Venom, Pig Destroyer and Manilla Road, but he also gets to partake in the metal conference during the day. Here’s Kyle’s explanation about…

  • Just got back from Calgary–and boy, is my wallet tired! Pt 2

    There were five bands playing the Distillery that evening, and aside from the local death/grind group who took the stage at 9, they were all solid supporting acts for The Sword.

  • Just got back from Calgary–and boy, is my wallet tired!

    So, last weekend’s Sled Island festival was pretty solid. Sleep, The Sword, Dead Meadow, Bison B.C., Red Fang–I really can’t complain. Well, not about the lineup, anyways. But after defending Calgary as an affordable city to live in, I found out otherwise during my trip there last weekend…