Tag: Dragged Into Sunlight

  • Mayhem & Dragged Into Sunlight (2017 tour diary)

    Mayhem & Dragged Into Sunlight (2017 tour diary)

    Heavy metal’s grandfathers Black Sabbath set the genre’s tone of darkness with their music, visual aesthetic and energy, and it seems that the acorns haven’t fall from the tree at all. Their fellow countrymen—as varied as Cathedral, Paradise Lost and Cradle of Filth—have followed suit and branched off while remaining true to that ominous core.…

  • Dragged Into Sunlight – American tour blog 2016

    Dragged Into Sunlight – American tour blog 2016

    I tagged along with England’s Dragged Into Sunlight for their first journey across America in 2012. I did so again for their second American tour last summer that spanned 27 cities. Comparing crowd sizes to their initial go around (about 50 to 75 people per show) to this time (100 to 400), it’s obvious that…

  • Hellbound.ca’s Top 10 Albums of 2012

    As promised last week, here are the Top 10 metal albums of 2012 according to the writers of Hellbound.ca. You will notice that, in comparison to our previously published Top 10 Canadian albums of 2012 list, a few Canadian artists actually ended up charting higher here than on the Canuck top 10. The reason for…

  • Hellbound.ca INDIVIDUAL TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2012

    Today we published the TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2012 list, as voted by the writers of Hellbound.ca. Here are the individual Top 10s that were submitted by our writers for your personal enjoyment…

  • Dragged Into Sunlight – American tour diary 2012 – Part 2

    Dragged Into Sunlight – American tour diary 2012 – Part 2

    The long awaited second half of Jay H. Gorania’s tour diary highlight his summer sojourn with UK black metal enthusiasts DRAGGED IN SUNLIGHT. Live photos by Luna Duran.

  • Dragged Into Sunlight – American tour diary 2012 – Part 1

    Dragged Into Sunlight – American tour diary 2012 – Part 1

    Earlier this summer Hellbound’s Jay H. Gorania hit the road in the USA with England’s Dragged In Sunlight. Here is the first part of his tour diary accompanying the band on their US tour with Cough. Live photos by Luna Duran and Albert Mansour.

  • Hellbound invades Maryland Deathfest 2012, Part 2

    Hellbound invades Maryland Deathfest 2012, Part 2

    “If you’re a fan of extreme metal and you live in North America, it’s likely that you have a strong impulse to attend the continent’s biggest annual festival: Maryland Deathfest. Actually attending the fest, however, isn’t always possible, especially if you live thousands of miles away.” Part two of Jay H. Gorania’s recap of Maryland…

  • Today Is The Day European Tour Diary 2011, Part Three

    In April, Jay H. Gorania headed to Europe to flog merchandise for TODAY IS THE DAY on their tour. Now that he’s back and had time to get used to regular life again, Mr. Gorania has written a tour diary for Hellbound.ca. Here is his third and final entry from the tour.

  • Dragged Into Sunlight – Hatred For Mankind

    Hatred for Mankind is a special flavor of ugly, reveling in nightmares and revealing in its horror. Predatory and visceral, Hatred for Mankind is a knife-in-the-gut of an album, one that begs to be listened to in its entirety – if only to see what’s around the next corner.