Tag: Toronto
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Events You Don’t Want to Miss, Toronto – January 2016
Starting the new year off right with a plethora of performances here, as the cold winter nights seem to only encourage Torontonians to rock out even harder. Ranging from the irresistible blackened doom of Old Witch to relentlessly wild thrash of Brutal Wulfsex, and the hot ticket of Sleep with Montreal sweethearts Big Brave, there…
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Events You Don’t Want to Miss – Toronto December 2015
December offers a wide variety of ways to kill those holiday earworms. Here’s a glance at what’s happening in Toronto this month. Saturday the 5th NORDHEIM, BATTLESOUL, PROTOKULT, DISTORIAM, VALKYRIE’S CRY, TSARGRAD – “Toronto Folk/Epic Metal Fest”. Maple Metal/$10/Coalition: T.O/19+ PHANTOM, ANSWER WITH METAL, PYTHON – “A quality helping of assorted Toronto Traditional Heavy Metal.”…
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AC/DC from the front row…and the not-so-cheap seats
Hard to tell from watching these guys that AC/DC is in their sixties. Seeing em live in 2015 wasn’t all that different from watching em 7, 15 or 19 years ago. But you sorta get the feeling it’s their last tour, and they saved their best for the occasion. Not just the obvious cuts like…
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Recent recommendations (from a few metal-leaning scholars)
As a Hellbound reader, you may know (or not) that your friendly neighbourhood editor is also a university professor – one who makes no secret of her metallic musical taste. Around the university, I mostly encounter people who don’t know much about metal music, who are indifferent or, occasionally, who are outright hostile to the…
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Om @ The Opera House – June 19th, 2015
HELLBOUND.CA @ NXNE 2015 Immense expressiveness. Power, boldness, no need for pomp at all. I don’t believe anybody could really sum this kind of performance up in a screen-friendly number of words, but that’s coming close. Sometimes we say “expert musicianship” when we want to say a performer is incredibly impressive. Also it seems those…
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AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: OM, Melvins, Crowbar, June 19-23, 2015
I must admit, I’m not as big into NXNE as I used to be. I just don’t have the stamina anymore to stay up till 3 am 3-4 nights in a row, running from venue to venue in search of heavy music. These days, I only do NXNE when there’s someone I really wanna see…and…
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Events You Don’t Want to Miss, Toronto – May 2015 Mostly Metal edition
Danielle Griscti offers a rundown of of what’s coming up metal-wise (mostly metal, anyway) in Toronto in the latest entry in our Events You Don’t Want to Miss series. Wednesday the 6th Knurl, Andrew Hock, Cetacea, Scalp Elevator Jam Factory, 8pm, $6 www.facebook.com/events/1595414454071229 Sunday the 10th Zephyr with Brenna MacCrimmon Smiling Buddha, 7pm, $10 www.facebook.com/events/1608058956099128 Friday the 15th…
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Not Of in Toronto, ON – April 18, 2015
Not Of album release show @ The Magpie Taproom, Toronto, ON – April 18, 2015 It’s only in this day and age of digital music distribution that a band can throw an album release party on Record Store Day with nary a physical album to be found. Up-and-coming noise rock duo Not Of showed up…
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Six of Swords – Polar Vortex EP
Six of Swords is a five-piece band from Toronto, Ontario. They put out an exciting demo in 2013 which was filled with the type of extreme music cuts that all brutal death metal fans would enjoy diving into. They have also been creating a buzz in the local scene, so it’s about time they release…
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Idol of Fear – All Sights Affixed, Ablaze
All Sights Affixed, Ablaze from Barrie’s Idol of Fear impresses right from the get-go with “Vanquish.” It lays the foundation for the album with a black metal base. The lead guitars are fantastic. They cut through the heaviness and burrow deep in your head. Screaming and screeching, they are nonetheless nearly permanently imbedded in my…