Tag: Canadian

  • XUL: Poised to take the world of metal by storm

    XUL: Poised to take the world of metal by storm

    Photo by Bailey Ann Gottlieb Interview by Patrick Chappelle Occasionally, the boundaries of metal are tested and stretched beyond the confines of what its fans find acceptable, by bands bands who seek to create something distinctive. Such efforts by artists who lack percipience or talent to make it happen, result in abominable recordings that often…

  • Crimson Shadows: Ready to Take on the World

    Crimson Shadows: Ready to Take on the World

    Hellbound is a Canadian-based metal site. That doesn’t determine our coverage – we can appreciate, evaluate and cover heavy tunes from anywhere in the world. But we do like to support our fellow Canadians who are involved in making ear-stimulating music. And though our Canada Day features and annual best Canadian metal lists are fun…

  • Whoa, talk about a blast from the past…

    In case you didn’t know, Moxy had a few hits in the mid-to-late 70’s. Their 1975 self-titled album kinda sounds like Rush’s debut, before the latter got more progressive, and featured guitar virtuoso Tommy Bolin on several solos–he just happened to be recording in the studio next door. These guys were so big down in…

  • Best of the Best – A Tally of the Year’s Best Albums

    Best of the Best – A Tally of the Year’s Best Albums

    I’m not sure exactly what this list means – is this list any better than any of the individual lists? Probably not. Every list that comes out has their own personality, has albums that may be less obvious. But perhaps what this list does show is what the collective metal media thought was the “can’t…

  • Maaaan, when did Monster Truck get to be so big!?

    I’ve been living and attending concerts in Toronto for over seven years now, so it’s safe to say I’ve seen a few local bands who got big well before they were known commodities. But now, I can even say I’ve seen a band from Hamilton go from the Toronto scene to the national stage. That…

  • My patriotic punk/metal Olympic playlist

    Well, unlike Vancouver 2010, I can’t truly say that I’m sick of our national anthem by now–Canada’s only won one gold medal this time around. But that said, while watching some exciting Olympic action, I still prefer to have the following blasting in the background…

  • Hellbound Staff Interrogations #10: Gruesome Greg

    Today’s staff interview is with our Toronto based stoner rock superfan Gruesome Greg

  • Hellbound Staff Interrogation #7: Laura Wiebe

    Our seventh staff interview is with fellow Hamiltonian Laura Wiebe

  • Hellbound Staff Interrogation #1: Adrien Begrand

    With today being the second anniversary of the launch of Hellbound.ca (yay us!), we have decided to do short interviews with the staff of Hellbound so that you the readers can find out more about us and where we come from. Justin M. Norton came up with a bunch of questions, which we will be…

  • First Look at… Anvil’s Juggernaut of Justice

    While this was the first listen through I feel pretty comfortable in saying that Juggernaut of Justice is the best album Anvil has made since Metal On Metal. In fact, it may even one day be recognized as their best album ever. It has the massive production the band has always wanted, produced by Bob…