Matt Hinch’s Canadian Top 10 of 2018
10. Loved Artist: KEN Mode Label: Season of Mist Listen to Loved on Bandcamp 9. A Low Winter’s Sun Artist: Heron Label: Sludgelord Listen…
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Gruesome Greg’s Canadian TOP 10 of 2018
10. A Low Winter’s Sun Artist: Heron Label: Sludgelord Considering the relative lack of proper post-sludge acts in this country, this release is well…
Gruesome Greg’s 2018 in metal
Every year, Hellbound writers submit their top albums of the year. They all get compiled into Hellbound’s Top Metal Albums of the year (coming…
The Great Sabatini – Goodbye Audio
Montreal’s favourite bearded noise-rock wizards – The Great Sabatini – are back with their fourth full-length album, featuring such family-unfriendly titles as “Still Life…
Holy Grove – II
OK, stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Female-fronted Portland outfit mixes heavy riffs and soaring vocals on one of the best doom…
Deadbird – III: The Forest Within the Tree
I guess they’re back from the dead? Roughly 10 years since their last album, Arkansas outfit Deadbird, featuring a few guys from Rwake and…
Windhand – Eternal Return
Windhand has consistently been one of my favourite doom bands of the past few years. They’ve shown that “female-fronted doom” isn’t limited to cloaks,…
High On Fire – Electric Messiah
Some people might say Matt Pike’s the new Lemmy, but when it comes to High On Fire’s consistency, I’d compare them to AC/DC. As…
Dopethrone – Transcanadian Anger
They may be named after an Electric Wizard record, but I’ve always found Dopethrone to be more like Canada’s answer to Bongzilla, with heavy,…
The Skull – The Endless Road Turns Dark
When The Skull played Toronto on a cold winter’s night in January, they ran through Trouble’s self-titled in its entirety before tacking on a…