Tag: Year in Review

  • Heavy Metal in 2017 by Steve Earles

    Heavy Metal in 2017 by Steve Earles

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Heavy metal in 2017 by Gene A. Gaona

    Heavy metal in 2017 by Gene A. Gaona

    Ah, that most glorious time of the year for music writers – year-end season is upon us once again! 2017 was a tumultuous year, but even so, it was a damned good one for heavy metal, and Team Hellbound had a cornucopia of great albums to choose from. Here, we turn the page over to…

  • Best metal of 2017: 1-5

    Best metal of 2017: 1-5

    Hellbound’s Top Metal Releases of the Year, part II Twelve Hellbound contributors named their ten favourite metal releases of 2017. Kyle Harcott tallied the entries, did the math and assigned the commentaries below. You, readers, have already had the chance to see our honourable mentions and part one of our collective ‘best of’ list: entries 10 through…

  • Best metal of 2017: 6-10

    Best metal of 2017: 6-10

    Hellbound’s Top Metal Releases of the Year, part I Twelve Hellbound contributors named their ten favourite metal releases of 2017. Kyle Harcott tallied the entries, did the math and assigned the commentaries below. You, readers, have already had the chance to see our honourable mentions – now we present to you part one of our collective…

  • Honourable mentions of 2017

    Honourable mentions of 2017

    We at Hellbound are nearly ready to weigh in on the best metal releases of 2017 with our collective top ten, as voted by the contributors. Before we share this overall ‘best of’ list, we present to you, our readers, a long list of honourable mentions. Our annual top ten, like our best Canadian list,…

  • A new year, more new (in) metal: 2017, part 1

    A new year, more new (in) metal: 2017, part 1

    While much of modern civilization seems to be imploding (or, perhaps, some destructiveness is becoming harder to not see), metal continues to evoke, chronicle, critique, ignore, and sometimes contribute to the chaos. There’s too much going on in metal these days to leave all our ‘best of’ and year-in-review lists to the end of the year. Here…

  • TOP 10 CANADIAN ALBUMS of 2016, part two

    TOP 10 CANADIAN ALBUMS of 2016, part two

    Not all our Canadian favourites made it to this year’s top ten list (hellbound.ca/2016/12/hellbounds-top-10-canadian-albums-2016). For that reason we share with you here the top Canadian metal picks from each of the Hellbound writers who chimed in for our end-of-year Canadian metal ‘best of’.   Hellbounders’ Canadian picks of 2016: the individual lists   Gruesome Greg 1. La Chinga…

  • HELLBOUND’S TOP 10 CANADIAN ALBUMS OF 2016

    HELLBOUND’S TOP 10 CANADIAN ALBUMS OF 2016

    This has gotta be the first time that Hellbound’s top two Canadian albums were even on my list, but I think that speaks to what excellent records Anciients and Blood Ceremony put out in 2016—a few writers had even ranked them as their personal top two. Canadian legends Gorguts, Voivod and Devin Townsend round out…

  • Hellbound Year End 2016: Collective Top 10

    Hellbound Year End 2016: Collective Top 10

    Hellbound’s End of Year Wrap Up: Part 10 Well, hell’s bells – 2016 was a hellride of a year, wasn’t it?! As the New Year comes creeping in with trepidation, the individual members of Team Hellbound take a look back at our favourites of the year, give our personal thoughts on the state of heavy metal in…

  • Hellbound Year End 2016: Laura Wiebe

    Hellbound Year End 2016: Laura Wiebe

    Hellbound’s End of Year Wrap Up: Part 9 Well, hell’s bells – 2016 was a hellride of a year, wasn’t it?! As the New Year comes creeping in with trepidation, the individual members of Team Hellbound take a look back at our favourites of the year, give our personal thoughts on the state of heavy metal in 2016,…