Tag: Reviews
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Staff picks and playlists – December 2019
Another year ends and a new one begins. Thanks for hanging with us in 2019. Stick around for lots more to come in 2020! This month, in addition to our usual staff playlists, some of us Hellbound folks have nominated our 2019 and all-decade favourites and highlighted what we’re looking forward to in this new…
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Oranssi Pazuzu at Velvet Underground – October 12, 2019
I type faster than I can think sometimes. Getting into that groove where your mind just sets itself and no longer allows any random thoughts in – did I turn off the stove? – we can all get there, but can probably agree it doesn’t always happen when we want it to. Few things can…
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Monolord – No Comfort
By the release of their fourth album, Rust, Monolord has well defined their sound. You could thus say this record sounds very Monolordy…or Monolordian? With that said, they do switch it up on a couple of tracks… “The Bastard Son” kicks off this six-song, 48-minute effort in true Monolordian fashion, with a slithering stoner-doom riff…
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Reviews x3: Fractal Cypher, Striker, Jo Quail
Fractal Cypher – Prelude To An Impending Outcome Fans of Dream Theater will find much to enjoy here. Beautifully played progressive metal, and a release that bodes well for their future music. Transcendent! (Mini Album, Self-Release) https://fractalcypher.bandcamp.com/album/prelude-to-an-impending-outcome Striker – Play To Win Striker remind me of the good old days when great bands like Iron Maiden…
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The History of Metal Blade Records
For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records By Brian Slagel with Mark Eglinton Foreword by Metallica’s Lars Ulrich Being an imaginative, restless, and generally unfuckwithable music nerd has its lonely moments. It doesn’t always matter – some of the most incredible experiences are those that make us feel separate from everything else…
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Enslaved – E
Of course, after so many years, the excitement is already there as soon as a new Enslaved release is announced. They continue to surprise though, and digging in to their fourteenth studio album, “E“, was nothing short of delightful. Just one track in – the below single, “Storm Son” – and new listeners will be…
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Book reviews from Steve Earles: June edition
A Gentleman In Moscow By Amor Towles Published by Hutchinson In this humorous and beautifully written book we are introduced to a certain Count Rostov, an aristocrat who has survived the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution; and had spent the last four years in a suite in The Metropol, a magnificent hotel near the Kremlin (Suite 217 of…
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Crusty Culprits, part six
Welcome to Crusty Culprits #6, where I shine the spotlight on some more rough fvckin’ diamonds from the world of punk rock, hardcore and points in-between. In recent years, Bandcamp’s proven to be an absolute goldmine for finding pick-sliding agitators worth writing about. So that’s where the pool of provocateurs below is drawn from. Thanks…
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Crusty Culprits, part five
Welcome to Crusty Culprits #5, where I shine a light on some rough fvckin’ diamonds from the world of D-beat, crust, hardcore, and all punk rock points in between. In recent years, Bandcamp has proven to be a goldmine for finding pick-sliding punks, so that’s where Crusty Culprits’ pool of provocateurs is drawn from. Thanks…
