Tag: gothic metal

  • Dark Tranquillity – We Are The Void

    The answer to whether or not a listener is satisfied by We Are The Void will boil down to individual taste; some will find it phenomenal and some will find the offering paltry and mawkish.

  • Classic Albums Revisited: Type O Negative’s October Rust

    We may have lost Petrus T. Ratajczyk due to heart failure, but his legacy with or without the band will live on for eternity. The heart is strongly, if not always associated with love, admiration and passion which leaves me wondering: did Peter Steele die to health related heart failure, or did he lucidly love…

  • The Vision Bleak – Set Sail To Mystery

    Like a ghost ship emerging from a heavy fog, Germany’s gothic duo have returned with an album that, despite some occasional flat attempts towards invoking a playfully dark atmosphere, is a fun record well worth a listen.

  • Elis: Catharsis

    By Melissa Andrews Elis hails from the tiny country of Liechtenstein. Catharsis is their first release with new vocalist Sandra Schleret singing. Schleret is the replacement for the band’s original singer, who died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage in 2006. Schleret’s vocals are adequate but her voice doesn’t have that character of the beautiful innocence…

  • Ava Inferi: Blood Of Bacchus

    Blood Of Bacchus is haunting and mysterious. It is graceful and desolate. Picture pure doom, lying under soft, almost operatic vocals and heavy guitars. Though it is very easy to develop a strong sense of what Ava Inferi sound like through this description, you will never fully understand the brilliance of this band until you…

  • Theatre of Tragedy: Forever is the World

    Forever is the World is the latest offering from Norway’s Theatre of Tragedy.

  • Leaves’ Eyes: Njord

    The overall sound gives me an image of Viking Goths parading around in Scandinavia. On most of the songs they manage to sound well balanced between classical and metal without sounding too rock opera cheesy

  • Lacuna Coil @ Annex Wreckroom, Toronto, ON, November 20th 2009

    Lacuna Coil live photo courtesy of wikipedia, copyright creative commons By Melissa Andrews   Lacuna Coil, previously already in Toronto this year on tour with All That Remains, was back for a special show that was added last minute as an end to their current North American tour. The Good: it was a Friday; it…

  • Secrets of the Moon: Privilegivm

    Germany’s Secrets of the Moon win this year’s award for most black on an album cover. Luckily for listeners, there’s as much inky depth to Privilegivm as the packaging’s colour pallette suggests.

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS: October 2009

    Find out what HELLBOUND’s contributors are listening to going into the month of October. Each writer has submitted their Top 5 list and have an option to list a book and a film they are into right now too.