Tag: Canada

  • Anvil: The Story of Anvil

    Anvil: The Story of Anvil is such a compelling, amazing film that you don’t need to know anything about these dudes going into it to absolutely get sucked into it. Big time. And now that it is available on DVD as well, I really think that everyone that reads Hellbound.ca needs to get the fuck…

  • 3 Inches Of Blood: True Canuck Metal Warriors

    With the recent release of their fourth studio album Here Waits Thy Doom early last month on Century Media, Vancouver’s true metal combo 3 Inches Of Blood have finally made the album many of us have been waiting for with baited breath. With the departure of second vocalist Jamie Hooper after the release of their…

  • 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)…

  • Down/Voivod @ Kool Haus, Toronto ON, Sept 18, 2009

    With considerably less than a packed house at The Kool Haus, Down took no notice, and put on one hell of a show for the rabid Down fans that were in attendance. Despite the small mountain of contraband booze (among other substances) that piled up outside the entrance, the crowd were treeated to a set…

  • Photo gallery: Voivod @ Koolhaus, Toronto ON, Sept 18, 2009

    All photos by Adam Wills. All photos are the property of Adam Wills and Hellbound.ca – do not copy without written consent.

  • Doro/Skullfist @ Annex Wreckroom, Toronto ON, Sept 11, 2009

    In my opinion Doro is the best female heavy metal vocalist of all time; it was a real gift just to catch her for the first time back in June 2007 – that show was amazing but seeing her for the second time was like winning the metal lottery. Albert Mansour reviews the recent Toronto…

  • Sacrifice: The Ones I Condemn

    Forget all of your cardboard cutout third division skidthrash bands that have been popping up all over the place in the last few years, Sacrifice has returned to show how it is done, period. These Canadian thrash icons have come back after sixteen years of hibernation to create what is possibly the best work of…

  • Culted: Below The Thunders of The Upper Deep

    Culted’s MySpace biography makes much of the fact that the band’s impressive first full-length album is a “truly collaborative effort across international lines.” One can only hope for more musical cooperation in the future from the jointly Canadian/Swedish band.

  • Nadja / Black Boned Angel: s/t

    Even with all the feedback, distortion and weird sounds this is an album that anyone interested in droning, ambient sounding metal should have a listen to.

  • Black Lotus: Harvest of Seasons

    Now I know most of you will compare them to Dark Funeral, Vintersorg, Borknagar and the like, but Victoria BC’s Black Lotus is definitely one of Canada’s most surprising hidden gems