Tag: tony Iommi

  • Hellbound Staff Interrogations #17: Justin M Norton

    Today’s interview in our ongoing staff interview profiles is with Northern California-based writer Justin M. Norton

  • Hellbound Staff Interrogations #12: Kyle Harcott

    Today’s staff interview is with Vancouver’s Kyle Harcott.

  • COUGH / THE WOUNDED KINGS: An Introduction To The Black Arts

    By Kevin Stewart-Panko First truth be told, I am a fan of the metallic sub-genre that has come to be known as sludge. Second truth be told, as much as a fan as I am of the metallic sub-genre that’s come to be known as sludge, sludge as a metallic sub-genre itself isn’t exactly know…

  • Various Artists – We Wish You a Metal Xmas…

    While not every track can boast the same impressive quality, We Wish you A Metal Xmas… offers a bit of sonic relief from the repetitive soundtrack that normally accompanies the Christmas season. If you take it with a grain of salt and pinch of irony, you might even find yourself enjoying a carol or two.

  • Heaven & Hell – Neon Nights:30 Years of Heaven & Hell DVD

    It’s tragic how such a welcome comeback could be snuffed out so cruelly, but what a way for Heaven and Hell to go out: sales and attendance exceptional, everyone finally getting along, not to mention proud of everything they’d accomplished in such a short time span. And with Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven &…

  • Classic Albums Revisited: Black Sabbath’s Born Again

    “With the recent UK deluxe reissues of the mid-eighties Black Sabbath albums Seventh Star and The Eternal Idol creating quite a buzz about those releases once again I thought it might be time to revisit my favourite under-heralded Sabs relic. Born Again, the band’s 1983 release and only one to feature noted vocalist Ian Gillan,…

  • Earthride – Something Wicked

    While the influence of Maryland doom is clearly present, Earthride slogs along the swamplands of such straight-ahead sludge-metal outfits as Crowbar and Weedeater at its best, and a ballsier, tone-deaf BLS at worst.

  • Black Sabbath – Classic Albums: Paranoid

    That lack of needless hyperbole is exactly what makes Classic Albums – Paranoid so easy and interesting to watch. Here, viewers learn that Paranoid – the largest keystone recording in metal – was recorded recorded in two days, cut live off the floor with a minimal number of overdubs and mixed in an additional two.…

  • Iron Man – Black Night (reissue)

    As previously mentioned in Albert Mansour’s recent Wolfbane review, Hellbound.ca has a pretty deep respect for the excellent job Pittsburgh’s Shadow Kingdom Records is doing chronicling long lost metal gems for modern day consumption. The long line of obscurities they have dug up in the past three years is admirable and this new reissue by…