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In Conversation With…. Mike Dean of Corrosion Of Conformity
By Matt Hinch Prior to Corrosion of Conformity embarking on a North American tour, on which the Kingston, Ontario date had just been canceled (re-booked for Barrie), I had the chance to have a...
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A Metalhead’s Holiday Gift Guide
Contributors: Steve Earles (SE), Rob Hughes (RH), Ola Mazzuca (OM), Jonathan Millard-Smith (JMS), Laura Wiebe (LW), Adam Wills (AW) As December’s gift-buying chaos falls upon us, rest assured that...
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The Grammy’s are a joke. In case you need to be reminded, here’s why…
So, they’re handing out the Grammy’s tonight. Ooh, can you feel the excitement? Me neither. Not only is the award ceremony an entirely irrelevant display of prefabricated pop-stars performing for...
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View From the Vault: Warpig Wails Again
By Sean Palmerston October 3, 2006 marked a milestone for Stoney Creek, Ontario resident Rick Donmoyer for something he thought had long been left behind. That Tuesday, the only album his early ’70s...
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Soooo, where do I buy my Black Sabbath tickets next weekend?
Black Sabbath has yet to announce any North American tour dates, but when Universal Music Canada unwittingly leaked that they’d be playing Toronto, oh, about a month ago, we were alerted to the fact...
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Satan – Life Sentence
By Gruesome Greg Hey wait, is this the same Court in the Act Satan from ’83? Not only the same band, but all of the musicians who recorded said cult classic some 30 years ago, to boot! Though they had...
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From the Archives: 2002 Interview with Down’s Pepper Keenan
By Sean Palmerston Things are a little quiet this week at Hellbound as a bunch of us are away in Baltimore, MD at Maryland Deathfest. So, since we are away, here is a reprint of a story I did on one...
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Black Sabbath – 13
By Bill Adams Some returns are highly anticipated, but then there was the wave of excitement which came with the announcement that a reformed Black Sabbath was entering the studio to record their...
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Blood Ceremony – The Eldritch Dark
By Gruesome Greg Man, I was into Blood Ceremony before being into Blood Ceremony was cool. Saw these guys for the first time in ’06—entirely by accident—and have followed their career ever since. Of...
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HELLBOUND RADIO Playlist – Sunday, June 23, 2013
A day later than usual, but here is Sunday night’s playlist! We had all three hosts in on the show on Sunday night – for at least 20 minutes at the same time even. Sean was late getting to the show...
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Church of Misery – Thy Kingdom Scum
By Gruesome Greg Don’t get me wrong, I was looking forward to Black Sabbath 13 and everything, but my most-anticipated June 11th release was the new Church of Misery. Of course, it wasn’t in stores...
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Black Wizard—Young Wisdom
By Rob Hughes Black Wizard’s second album teems with heavy rock majesty, with grime-caked riffs from start to finish. The members of Black Wizard all perform with other bands (including Three Wolf...
View ArticleJust a few more sleeps to the Sabbath gig…
To date, I have never seen Black Sabbath live–Heaven and Hell notwithstanding. Hey, I grew up in the barren plains of Calgary back when that description was at least somewhat accurate, and considering...
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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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Blood Ceremony / Biblical / Cauchemar @ Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON,...
By Danielle Griscti Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern saw no time or space wasted on Saturday night, as the eagerly anticipated album The Eldritch Dark by Blood Ceremony got an official release party. People...
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This Tour Cancellation is Brought to You by Nik Turner
I hafta say I was pretty stoked to hear that Hawkwind was coming to town–and I certainly wasn’t the only one. The Toronto show sold out weeks in advance, with at least a few people planning on...
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Ghoul – Intermediate Level Hardcore
By Matt Hinch Cover albums play a very important role in spreading music. They may not be universally accepted by metaldom but there’s no doubt countless fans have discovered new bands, if not entire...
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Varga @ Club Absinthe, Hamilton ON, December 7, 2013
Live review by Laura Wiebe; Concert Photos by Adam Wills Nearing two decades since their last album release, Hamilton’s Varga have a new entry in their discography, and they celebrated the occasion...
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The Mezmerist – The Innocent, The Forsaken, The Guilty
By Gruesome Greg Black Sabbath‘s 13 might not have Bill Ward on drums, but this album does. Well, the first four songs of it, anyways. Seems that Bill Sabbath was slumming around back in ’83 when he...
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Bill Ward: The Hellbound Interview
Photo (c) Christopher Wagner By Kyle Harcott It don’t mean a thing if don’t got that caveman swing. Heavy metal’s birth, squalling and screeching, is, invariably, always credited to the guitarist of...
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