Skull Fist – Heavier Than Metal
This album shows the real Toronto metal scene is sparkling with some great new bands.
NWOBHM
Raven – Walk through Fire
By Albert Mansour Receiving this new Raven CD I raised a worried eyebrow thinking that this was going to be one their Stay Hard…
Wolfbane – s/t
Shadow Kingdom Records is like the Energizer Bunny. It keeps going and going and going with great releases one after another. One of their newest gems is this compilation by Wolfbane.
Photo Gallery: Cauldron at Hellbound Radio, February 28, 2010
Here are some photos I took last night of Cauldron when they were our special guests on Hellbound Radio. All photos were taken inside of the INDI 101 studios.
-Albert
CAULDRON Invade Hellbound Radio This Sunday!
It’s special guest time again this weekend on Hellbound Radio! This Sunday night we will be joined in the INDI 101 studios by Toronto heavy metal trio CAULDRON to talk about the band, their debut album Chained To The Nite and metal in general. We’ll be spinning music from CAULDRON and have also asked them to bring in some of their own favourite CDs to spin on the show.
Holy Grail – Improper Burial
Bottom line is this is fun metal played with over the top guitar shredding.
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Anvil: The Story of Anvil is such a compelling, amazing film that you don’t need to know anything about these dudes going into it to absolutely get sucked into it. Big time. And now that it is available on DVD as well, I really think that everyone that reads Hellbound.ca needs to get the fuck off their ass and go out and at least rent this for a night and watch it.
Sean Palmerston reviews the new DVD issue of the best rock and roll documentary of 2009.
Mean Streak: Metal Slave
The pace is very steady with solid lead guitars going back and forth, Metal Slave is about exactly what you always wanted in a NWOBHM style album. These guys give a helluva good performance, showing a great influence of Judas Priest, Battleaxe, Saxon and early Scorpions. It is a pleasure to listen to a debut album like this
Hysterica: Metalwar
Metalwar is somewhat similar to an 80’s band called Leather Angel; this has the same sort of feel as their 1982 album We Came to Kill. I actually expected Hysterica to be another dreadful, typical, cheesy female band and all that. Luckily I was wrong, well at least somewhat wrong.
Black Out: Evil Game
This classic debut album by Holland’s Black Out was originally released by Roadrunner way back in 1984 and surprised many in the metal world with a few very positive reviews written toward this album back in the day. Needless to say, that this band is almost seamlessly connected with the British metal invasion of the early eighties.