Fucked Up – Year of the Dragon
It’s time for a taste of Toronto courtesy of Fucked Up, Canada’s premier progressive hardcore sextet. No, that’s not an oxymoron, but I must admit, it’s pretty fucked up (in a good way). This...
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Wacken Metal Battle Canada 2014: who are the final combatants?
This coming Saturday five bands will step up to compete in Wacken Metal Battle Canada 2014 one last time, each striving to represent their home and native land in the international metal battle...
View ArticleGodstopper – Children Are Our Future
A few months ago, a friend of mine told me that Godstopper was the best band going in Toronto. Now, I don’t know about that per se – I actually like my friend’s band (Harangue) better, but that’s a...
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Harangue CD release show Friday, June 27th @ The Garrison, Toronto
HARANGUE CD release show with SIGNIFIER, GUILTFEEDER Friday June 27th The Garrison, Toronto By the Strength of the Mighty Atlas, the new full-length from Toronto hardcore outfit HARANGUE, got a release...
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King Diamond / Jess and the Ancient Ones @ Sound Academy, Toronto ON, October...
Review by Sean Palmerston – Concert photos by Adam Wills This was a Saturday night worth remembering. A cold, crisp October evening just a few weeks before Halloween made for a fitting return of King...
View ArticleNorthumbria ‘Bring Down the Sky’ to hold release show – Dec 11 @ the Garrison...
A couple of weeks ago Toronto based drone duo Northumbria released their second full length titled Bring Down the Sky. To celebrate they’re bringing their live improvisations to the Garrison (1197...
View ArticleChristmas at the Garrison holiday food drive – Dec 18
It’s not metal but it’s for a good cause. If you’re in the mood for burlesque, 50s and 60s music, and supporting the Daily Bread food bank, you might want to check out “Christmas at the Garrison.”...
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January metal shows you don’t want to miss (Toronto edition)
Need some live metal to spice up your post-holiday life or dispel the winter blues? The January chill is on here in Hellbound’s southern Ontario home but there are lots of good reasons to drag your...
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Metal events you don’t want to miss in Toronto – March Madness Edition
Danielle Griscti offers a rundown of of what’s coming up metal-wise in Toronto in the latest addition to our Events You Don’t Want to Miss series in this, the 2015 March Madness Edition. Thursday the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. Poster by Lou Branchaud of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AC/DC from the front row…and the not-so-cheap seats
AC/DC was the band that got me into music, period. And while I’ll be the first to admit that they’ve been pretty much re-releasing the same album for the past 30 years, they’ve still put out a whole...
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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,...
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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...
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Contest : Hail!
Hail! It’s time for a contest you don’t want to miss, folks! WIN: Admission to the Battle of the Gods! CROMLECH / ELFSPELL / ISCHEMIC / VALKYRIE’S CRY in Toronto. Here it is in Facebookland. One...
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