Tag: Sabbat

  • UK Thrash: Part 2

    UK Thrash: Part 2

    Noted UK punk rock journalist Ian Glasper recently announced that he’s writing a book on the history of UK thrash metal, to be published in 2018. That announcement got me thinking about all the old school UK thrash and crossover bands I used to listen back in the day, and the ones that I still…

  • Atlantean Kodex – The White Goddess

    Hellbound Metal: “Another highly-anticipated album for yours truly, The White Goddessis the long-awaited follow-up to the German power-doom band’s 2010 debut, The Golden Bough. Mind you, crafting a record of such epic length takes time; although, at 58 minutes, it’s actually some seven shorter than its predecessor!”

  • Blood Ceremony – The Eldritch Dark

    Hellbound Metal: “Alas, while part of me is still pining for the s/t, I’m digging this new direction as well.”

  • Old Corpse Road – ‘Tis Witching Hour…As Spectres We Haunt This Kingdom’

    Hellbound Metal: The best new British band since The Meads of Asphodel, I can give no higher praise!

  • Ravens Creed – The Power

    ‘The Power’ will definitely be in my top ten for 2013, and if you love metal it should be in yours too.

  • Darkness Shade Records Round Up

    Once upon a time, not so long ago, before the internet turned much of the western world’s population into isolated recluses, the tape-trading network was the lifeblood of the underground metal scene. In this spirit, Darkness Shade Records has produced three fine cassette releases.

  • STAFF PLAYLISTS: September 2010

    BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Find out what HELLBOUND’s contributors have been listening to during the month of September. Almost every writer has submitted their Top 5 list and have an option to list a book and a film they are into right now too

  • KEVI METAL’S RIMSHOTS v.2 #3

    The music world is filled with similar smoke and mirrors acts. We’re told over and over and over again that so-and-so’s new album is the one that’ll re-define the genre. How many times have you heard in the last couple years that this-and-that’s “stunning” comeback album is “highly anticipated” and their best yet? Better than…