Tag: heavy metal
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Staff Playlists, April 2019
April showers bring… more metal? We welcome you once again to check out what the staff of Hellbound are playing and recommending this month. Hellbound recommends Bill Adams Listening to: L7 – Scatter The Rats (Blackheart Records). It’s hard to believe that the last time L7 released a full-length album was in 1999. Any one…
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Spirit Adrift – Divided by Darkness
Spirit Adrift’s previous album, Curse of Conception, was one of the best doom metal, if not overall metal albums of 2017. I know it ranked quite highly on my year-end top 10 list – and I definitely wasn’t alone. But now I’ve heard that they’ve switched things up a bit for their latest record. While…
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Out Of Line Weekender 2019, Day 3
Astra Kulturhaus – Berlin, Germany Out Of Line Weekender 2019 edition was taking place on 04.-06. April at Astra Kulturhaus Berlin, Germany. The three day affair was covering electronic, techno and various heavy metal genres. Check out our coverage of Day 1 and Day 2. Day 3 in review The last day of Out Of…
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Nomad Son – The Darkening
Metal-on-Metal is a superb label. I haven’t encountered anything from them yet that wasn’t first class, and Nomad Son are no exception. Hailing from Malta, an island that produces a lot of fine metal bands (particularly in proportion to its population!), Nomad Sun play extremely proficient heavy metal, to my mind NWOBHM influenced with the…
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Staff Playlists, March 2019
Spring has began to sprung (at least for those of you in the northern hemisphere). Join the ones of hellbound this month to see what they’ve been givin’ some love to as we bring in these warmer months. Hellbound recommends Steve Earles Listening to: Albert Bell’s Sacro Sanctus – Liber III: Codex Templarum. Third and best…
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Sacro Sanctus – Liber III: Codex Templarum
This is metal made for the very best of reasons by Mr. Albert Bell, a long-time mainstay of the Maltese metal scene: for the love of the music and culture. For, make no mistake, fifty years down the line, metal is a legitimate culture, with a glorious past, exciting present, and much optimism for its…
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Staff Playlists, February 2019
This month, in honour of Valentine’s day, we’ve added an extra category to spread the love. We’ve also added a category for all you Anti-Valentiners out there. Come accompany the humans of Hellbound this time around for their picks, recommendations and hearts full of Metal. Hellbound recommends Bill Adams New release: Royal Trux – White…
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Seeking shredders to shred
Banger Casting Call: Shredders of Metal Season 2 If you’re a shredder from the Toronto area or can get yourself to the city near the end of April, this news is for you: Banger TV is seeking contestants for the second season of their guitar-playing competition, Shredders of Metal. Here’s the word, straight from Banger:…
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Chainbreaker – Lethal Desire
It is a rarity for me to find a modern speed metal group that manages to peak my interest for more than a listen or two. While stuck on a train, I decided to kick back, pay too much for a beer and give Chainbreaker a listen. A few seconds into the album’s opening track…
