Tag: interview
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Amorphis throwback (rocking it like it’s 2001)
To mark the release of the latest Amorphis album, Under the Red Cloud, let’s go back to a more innocent time—April 2001, to be precise—when Hellbound editor Laura Wiebe interviewed the band before a show in Toronto. They were touring to promote Am Universum, and her freewheeling conversation with Esa (Holopainen, guitar) and Niclas (Etelävuori,…
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Fredericton: GREBER video premier and tour dates
GREBER‘s latest full-length, Kiln Hardened Psalms, came out late last year but the momentum is still building. The newest result? A video for one of the most ferocious tracks on a seriously (but not too serious) ferocious record. Bassist Marc Bourgon took the time to answer a few questions: Why this song, “Fredericton”? Fredericton has been…
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Anti-Flag: Against The Odds
It seems deliberately discordant in many ways, but some bands need to fight their battles on an uphill incline in order for them to produce their own best selves. These kinds of bands are the sort which need to feel as though they have something to prove because they’ve been knocked down or counted out,…
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From the archives – Type O Negative: Geriatric ‘Souldiers’ of Rock and Roll
Originally published in Unrestrained! in 2007. Peter Steele says he’s a “souldier,” a “tool of god.” And as that tool, Steele (who’s best known as the bassist/frontman of Type O Negative) claims it’s his duty to transmit god’s unpopular message any way he can – whether that’s through “rock and roll or heavy metal or…
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Get out your popcorn kiddies, MUTANK is coming
A deranged lunatic broke out of an insane asylum (which was really a front for a mutagenic testing facility) with a strong sexual magnetism towards nuclear waste. Upon finding a discarded vat of the stuff in a nearby swamp, he proceeded to pound-off into the glowing green slime. The smell brought back memories of his…
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Nick Oliveri goes it alone. With help.
In music, as is the case in life, sometimes it’s important to strike out on your own – if only to see what you’re capable of. The uncertainty of such a daring break away from the known and the safety associated with it makes the rewards that much sweeter when they come; not for nothing…
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Judas Priest: one new recruit meets four heavy metal veterans
The other members of Judas Priest are old enough to be his father. Starting as a youngling familiarizing himself with the guitar, all the way through his professional music career, Priest’s heavy metal thunder has remained ever-present and ever-strong for 34-year-old, London-born Richie Faulkner. “My musical background was a healthy dose of Priest, Sabbath, UFO…
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Introducing the Melvins’ Grand New Evolution
King Buzzo and Dale Crover are joined by Butthole Surfers alumni Paul Leary and Jeff Pinkus to present a great new kind of weirdness. Buzz Osborne is excited. Actually, just saying that the Melvins singer/guitarist is excited undercuts the tone in his voice. He is buzzing with energy and anticipation because, with the release of…
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Hellbound vs Professor Pizza – The Axeslasher Interview
Recently Hellbound photographer and web wizard Adam Wills had the chance to chat with underground metal phenomenon, Axeslasher. The man behind the band, Professor Pizza, reflects on self promotion, the Denver Black Sky Festival and recording in the Converse studio… Going back to when I originally heard about the band through social media and pushing…