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Schizoid: The Next Extreme
By Laura Wiebe In 1999 a small but international underground label called D-Trash Records released a noisy, electronic and metallic record called Enough is Enough! – the debut from southern Ontario...
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Horseback – Half Blood
By Rob Hughes The music of Horseback should collapse under the weight of its audacity, yet on Half Blood it breathes and moves in fascinating, highly listenable ways. Horseback is its own multifaceted...
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Serpentine Path – self-titled
By Gruesome Greg What do you get when you take recently-disbanded NYC doomsters Unearthly Trance and add Tim Bagshaw, of Electric Wizard and Ramesses fame? Well, this new unit’s debut album drops...
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Weapon— Embers and Revelations
By Craig Haze I’m not a religious or even particularly spiritual person. However, like countless metal fans of a similar persuasion, that doesn’t stop me enjoying the inherent wickedness of filthy,...
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Hellbound.ca’s Top 10 Albums of 2012
As promised last week, here are the Top 10 metal albums of 2012 according to the writers of Hellbound.ca. You will notice that, in comparison to our previously published Top 10 Canadian albums of 2012...
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LISTENING TO THE PAST: Death – Human
By Jonathan Smith This is the first of what will hopefully be an ongoing series of reviews, written in addition to reviewing newer releases, that will highlight what I (and perhaps other Hellbound...
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Convulse – Inner Evil EP
By Sean Palmerston Chalk this one up as a reunion this writer is actually interested in, not to mention did not see coming. Finland’s Convulse was part of that country’s early, weird death metal...
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Call Of The Void – Dragged Down a Dead End Path
By Matt Hinch Call of the Void were formerly known as Ironhorse. Now, I used to live behind a country bar named The Ironhorse Saloon, so the change in name is a relief as this Boulder, CO band is the...
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ASG – Blood Drive
By Gruesome Greg I’ve always kinda wondered whether this band’s name actually stands for All-Star Game, but maybe that’s just me. Also, they always seem to be the support band that drops off the tour...
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HELLBOUND RADIO Playlist – Sunday, June 9th, 2013
Well holy shit, it’s a Hellbound Radio playlist! Well, there actually hasn’t been a playlist for a while, as it has been nearly a month since we have done the show live. Never fear however, faithful...
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STAFF PLAYLISTS: August 2013
Back by popular demand! It’s the staff playlists page! Here’s what we’ve been listening to in July and August 2013… Bill Adams THE HEAVY BLINKERS – Health (self-released) MIXTAPES – Ordinary Noise (No...
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Exhumed – Necrocracy
By William Seay A new album from Exhumed almost seemed unlikely just a few years ago, but with the 2011 “comeback” album All Guts, No Glory, we saw a startlingly polished return to form. Exhumed have...
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Windhand – Soma
By Gruesome Greg After hearing this female-fronted Virigina doom troupe’s contribution to the Cough split, I was very much looking forward to their full-length album seeing the light of day. That...
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Red Fang – Whales and Leeches
By Gruesome Greg A new Red Fang record is never a bad thing. These Portland beardos inject a healthy sense of humour into their heavy rock (just watch, like, any of their videos), and they really...
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Culted – Oblique to All Paths
By Gruesome Greg Bit of an interesting back story to this death-doom unit, mostly from Winnipeg, but with a Swedish singer they’ve never actually met in person, exchanging songs over the internet and...
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Indian – From All Purity
By Gruesome Greg These Chicago sludgesters are a filthy, dirty beast that would rather rape your ears than shake your hand. Case in point, the first song on their six-song, sixth album is simply...
View ArticleInterview with Mike Hill of Tombs
Brooklyn black metal alchemists Tombs are set to release their third album entitled Savage Gold today. One of the year’s most anticipated albums, the follow up to 2011′s critically lauded Path of...
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Atriarch – An Unending Pathway
Not too familiar with this Portland outfit, but Atriarch have been described as a head-on collision between post-sludge and new wave, which seemed intriguing enough for me to listen up. The fact that...
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Primitive Man – Home is Where the Hatred is
One needs not listen to a note of this EP to know that it’s gonna be bleak—the artwork is about *thisclose* to getting Relapse charged with supporting terrorism under the Patriot Act. And certainly,...
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Valkyrie – Shadows
Been a while since we’ve heard from these Virginia doomsters—split 7” with Earthling aside, they haven’t released a record since 2008. And yet, their profile has grown somewhat in their absence, what...
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