Orange Goblin – The Wolf Bites Back
It’s been about three and a half years since we last heard from Orange Goblin, but it’s good to have them back. Album number…
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Grave Lines – Fed Into The Nihilist Engine
Like Mogwai meeting Black Sabbath, this is music that mines dark inner depths. The music is given a chance to breathe, to surge and…
Age of Taurus – The Colony Slain
Age of Taurus, as I last remember them, were a doom band in the British tradition of the genre. Their debut album, 2013’s Desperate…
High Priestess – self-titled
Although there are some outstanding female-fronted doom outfits that don’t dabble in witchcraft and wizardry (Witch Mountain and Windhand being two excellent examples), most…
Wykan – Solace
Wykan are making their music for all the right reasons. Not to show off body modifications; rather, they are all about brain modifications. They…
Heron – A Low Winter’s Sun
This Sludgelord Records signing outta Vancouver namedrops Isis, Sleep and Corrupted in their Bandcamp bio, so you know it’s gonna be heavy. Heron’s debut…
Staff Picks, April 2018
This month we continue a revived Hellbound tradition – our monthly staff picks/playlists. Every few weeks we ask our regular and longtime contributors to…
Limb – Saboteurs of the Sun
It’s always great to hear a band progress and grow organically. Limb’s song-writing has improved massively. Saboteurs of the Sun (a fine title by the…
Sleep – The Sciences
Those sneaky bastards! After being my most-anticipated album for the past two or three years in a row, Sleep finally released their first full-length…
Body Void – I Live Inside a Burning House
Generally speaking, sludge metal is not about good times or made by happy people. While depression, divorce and drug addiction have previously inspired other…