Tag: Quebec

  • Messe des Morts VIII – Genèse

    Messe des Morts VIII – Genèse

    Piranha Bar, Montréal.  Thursday the 22nd of November, 2018. It’s the eighth edition of this feast of black metal.  Having attended a few times in the past, this humble fangirl was primed to expect excellence.  And, all told, I have to say this was my favourite Messe yet.  Of course, being able to finally shoot…

  • Cantique Lepreux – Paysages Polaires

    Cantique Lepreux – Paysages Polaires

    Cantique Lepreux are gearing up to release their second full-length album on Eisenwald on November 30, 2018 and it’s proving to be the perfect album to listen to during the snowy months. Quebec trio are yet again putting out some of the best black metal in Canada and they have nothing but masterpieces behind them.…

  • Akitso – Credo

    Akitso – Credo

    Legendary Canadian black metal duo Akitsa have returned yet again with a brutal black metal record that has turned out to be their most accessible, consistent and crushing record to date. All six tracks are completely brutal in their own unique way leaving this plenty of replay value. Every aspect of this album is either…

  • Tunguska Mammoth song premiere: Phénix

    Tunguska Mammoth song premiere: Phénix

    In setting up his review of Breathless, the soon-to-be released new album from Tunguska Mammoth, Hellbound’s Gruesome Greg remarked on the fitting resonance between the Quebec band’s name and the music they make: “Combining a large prehistoric beast with the site of a massive natural explosion makes for quite a powerful moniker; in the case of Montreal’s Tunguska…

  • Amnesia Rockfest: outdoing themselves one year at a time

    Amnesia Rockfest: outdoing themselves one year at a time

    On some level, every show organizer and promoter wants to have the event that those who attended look back and remember as the most incredible thing they ever saw. The memories of seeing that moment when a band hit that perfect stride after having been mothballed for years or that chime when a baby band…

  • Sombres Forêts – La Mort du Soleil

    Hellbound Metal: “The result is an album which is admirable in its aesthetic approach, but nonetheless disappointingly mundane in its musical execution.”

  • Voivod – Target Earth

    Target Earth is one of those albums that many reviewers will spend more time talking about what is wrong with it than what is right. Since it is the first album to feature Mongrain and it is essentially the start of a new era, you can expect it to be compared over and over to…

  • My patriotic punk/metal Olympic playlist

    Well, unlike Vancouver 2010, I can’t truly say that I’m sick of our national anthem by now–Canada’s only won one gold medal this time around. But that said, while watching some exciting Olympic action, I still prefer to have the following blasting in the background…

  • DRAGONFORCE GETS GRILLED BY A NINE-YEAR-OLD

    Ever wonder what would happen if you let a nine year old kid interview their favourite band? We over at Hellbound did, so we arranged for nine year old Sam Stewart-Panko to interview guitarists Sam Totman and Herman Li from his favourite band, Dragonforce. Here’s an interview you don’t want to miss.