Tag: metal
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Interview: Ben Claus of GOROD
French tech death band GOROD have teamed up with Cannabis Corpse, Micawber and headliners Psycroptic for a spring American tour. While the bands were in Oakland to play the Metro Opera House, Hellbound’s Gene Gaona had a chance to speak with bassist Benoit (Ben) Claus. Recorded at the Metro Opera House in Oakland, California on…
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Interview: Todd Stern of PSYCROPTIC
Tasmanian death metal crew Psycroptic are on this side of the planet, touring the United States in support of their 2018 album As The Kingdom Drowns (Prosthetic). Hellbound’s Gene Gaona got a chance to chat with the band’s American bassist, Todd Stern, before the band’s show at the Metro Opera House in Oakland, California. Interview…
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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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Slomatics – Canyons
There’s something to be said for originality in doom. With most of the bands whose names contain either Witch or Wizard, you kind of know what kind of generic riffage and occult symbolism you’re gonna get. But Slomatics, their name just oozes doom, without sounding like everyone else. And when it comes to the music,…
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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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Magic Circle – Departed Souls
Magic Circle’s first two albums are considered underground classics of true doom metal, so when they announced that Departed Souls, their first new record in four and a half years, was going to be more “70’s sounding,” there was some cause for concern. But I can assure you that if you like your doom of…
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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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Out Of Line Weekender 2019, Day 1
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. Thursday was completely under the sign of electronic music. Friday was unifying both worlds and hosting two headliners. And Saturday…
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Aftershock Festival 2019 PREVIEW
Well, it’s that time of year again where Aftershock Festival has been announced and it is another stacked line up. October 11th-13th at Discovery Park in Sacramento California will be the place to be for all things Rock and Heavy Metal. This year marks the 8th installment of the Festival and will see headliners that include Slipknot,…
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Swanfest, March 2019
Swanfest @ City National Grove, Anaheim, California, March 30, 2019 First Swanfest, 2019, and can’t wait for many more to come. When you first arrive General Admission already had a line going around not one but two corners. The VIP line was fairly long too, but both lines moved along quickly to get everyone in…