Tag: metal
-
Best metal of 2017: 1-5
Hellbound’s Top Metal Releases of the Year, part II Twelve Hellbound contributors named their ten favourite metal releases of 2017. Kyle Harcott tallied the entries, did the math and assigned the commentaries below. You, readers, have already had the chance to see our honourable mentions and part one of our collective ‘best of’ list: entries 10 through…
-
Best metal of 2017: 6-10
Hellbound’s Top Metal Releases of the Year, part I Twelve Hellbound contributors named their ten favourite metal releases of 2017. Kyle Harcott tallied the entries, did the math and assigned the commentaries below. You, readers, have already had the chance to see our honourable mentions – now we present to you part one of our collective…
-
Honourable mentions of 2017
We at Hellbound are nearly ready to weigh in on the best metal releases of 2017 with our collective top ten, as voted by the contributors. Before we share this overall ‘best of’ list, we present to you, our readers, a long list of honourable mentions. Our annual top ten, like our best Canadian list,…
-
Corrosion of Conformity – No Cross, No Crown
Don’t get me wrong, I really dug those two records COC put out as a three-piece in the past five years… but just like southern cooking, it ain’t the same without Pepper. Mr. Keenan’s return injected new life into some old tunes back in 2015, and now they’ve finally returned with another new album, making…
-
Borracho – Riffography
I’m never quite sure what to expect with these “B sides/demos” comps. I mean, I dig Borracho, but do I really wanna listen to 75 minutes of music that never made it onto an album (often with good reason)? Mind you, most of these songs had already seen the light of day, including a couple…
-
Monolith Cult – Gospel of Despair
This mid-November doom record nearly passed me by—I hadn’t previously heard of this U.K. outfit, and it’s just their second release. But when I finally got a chance to listen to the music, it grabbed me right away. If you like your traditional-style epic doom served with a side of power metal, complete with a…
-
Clamfight – III
Man, I really dug Clamfight’s second record, which came out almost five years ago. In tr00 none-more-kvlt fashion, they put out a live cassette tape that was limited to 20 copies in 2014, but no one has really heard from them since… until now. Their aptly named third album offers five tracks in just under…
-
CROWBAR video interview, Oakland CA, 16 November 2017
What’s the next best thing to hanging out with Kirk Windstein from CROWBAR? Watching Mean Gene Gaona’s interview with Kirk Windstein from CROWBAR. Check it out if you want to learn about Windstein’s favourite Louisiana cuisine, his dad’s love for heavy metal, star-struck moments with Barry Gibb and Jimmy Page, and much more. Gene A.…
-
WarCall – Invaders
Like a black metal Motorhead or the mutant offspring of New Wave of British Heavy Metal legends Tank, WarCall really live up to their name! Indeed the comparisons with Motorhead and Tank are apt as WarCall are a strong power trio. On this, their fourth album (following ‘Demonarchy’, ‘Blood, Guts and Dirt’, and ‘III’), they show…
-
Oranssi Pazuzu – Kevät / Värimyrsky EP
Eerily ethereal, beautifully brutal. These are a few bits of dark matter that have slipped through the cracks of Oranssi Pazuzu‘s ever expanding galaxy of recordings. From the band via the 20 Buck Spin website: “Although not ‘new’ in every sense of the word – the first song ‘Kevät’ was recorded during Valonielu sessions in…