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Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay
By Gruesome Greg New Neurosis! It’s been about five years since I could say that, and while they’ve reissued a good chunk of their back catalogue in the interim, there’s nothing like some fresh timbre...
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Blue Aside – The Moles of a Dying Race
By Gruesome Greg I was highly impressed by this Boston trio’s debut EP, The Orange Tree, which came out a couple years back, so their inaugural full-length comes highly-anticipated. Mixing...
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Soooo, we’ve got OM here tomorrow, High on Fire next week… All we need is a...
If stoner doom legends Sleep have never played Toronto, it’s not due to any sort of security issues. In fact, two-thirds of the original Sonic Titans will be in town within the next eight days. I can...
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Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships
By Gruesome Greg Though they’re named after an opulent area of Hong Kong, this band hails from San Fran, across the Pacific Ocean. And after their self-released debut record generated a bit of a buzz...
View ArticleHellbound.ca INDIVIDUAL TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2012
Today we published the TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2012 list, as voted by the writers of Hellbound.ca. Here are the individual Top 10s that were submitted by our writers for your personal enjoyment… BILL ADAMS 1....
View ArticleThere’s nothing like the sound of Neurosis in wintertime…
Doom metal, in general, is not summertime music. When the sun’s out, the temperature’s rising and yer sweatin’ balls, you wanna cruise down the blacktop blasting some Kyuss or Fu Manchu, not some...
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Best of the Best – A Tally of the Year’s Best Albums
By Adam Wills As I was putting together my list of “Best Albums of 2012,” I was curious about the other lists that various metal publications put together and how both my own and Hellbound’s lists...
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Amenra – Mass V
By Gruesome Greg Despite what the title seems to indicate, this is album number four from Belgian post-sludge collective Amenra. (I can’t recall a Mass IV, anyways…) These European touring partners of...
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Seventeen Questions With… Titan (Canada)
Interrogation by Matt Hinch Back in June Toronto’s Titan released the stunning Burn album to much critical praise. (Exhibit A and Exhibit B) Now Burn has been voted #6 on Hellbound’s Top Canadian...
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Corrections House – Hoax the System/Grin with a Purpose 7″
By Gruesome Greg Always interested to hear what Williams, Kelly, Parker and company have got cooking, which in this case, takes the form of a seven-inch single. “Grin with a Purpose” is apparently...
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HELLBOUND RADIO: August 11, 2013 Playlist
Hellbound Radio airs every Sunday, 9pm-midnight EST on 101.5 Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. Listen on-line at www.indifm.ca. Wanna request something or give us shit? (905) 575-2101. Your hosts...
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BL’AST! – Blood
By Gruesome Greg A long-lost recording from the California hardcore crew with the new guy from Alice in Chains, remastered by Dave Grohl himself? OK, so you’ve piqued my interest. This record was...
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HELLBOUND RADIO: September 22 & 29, 2013 Playlists
Hey there, Hellbound readers! We are a little behind in playlists, Sean has been too busy with work related things to update everything as much as he should, so here are two weeks worth of playlists....
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Corrections House – Last City Zero
By Gruesome Greg Q: What do you get when you put Mike Williams, Scott Kelly, Bruce Lamont and Sanford Parker in one building? A: Corrections House. (And with a lineup like that, you know it’s gotta be...
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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...
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The Lion’s Daughter & Indian Blanket – A Black Sea
By Gruesome Greg Holy Nine Band Members, Batman! I’m not sure if there’s a classical term for a nine-piece band (novtet?), but that’s how many faces appear in the band photo on this album, a...
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Cardinal Wyrm – Black Hole Gods
There have been enough notable sludge/doom outfits from down by the Bay Area—Sleep, Noothgrush, Neurosis, to name but a few—that when a newer outfit from San Fran or Oakland starts getting some press,...
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Sorxe – Surrounded by Shadows
Though I haven’t heard of them before, Sorxe is part of the same Arizona sludge scene as the likes of TOAD, Godhunter and North — not to mention the Southwest Terror Fest, which I hope to attend some...
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Mike Scheidt: The Hellbound Interview
Mike Scheidt has been busy over the last couple of years, having seen the release of his first solo album, the first VHOL record, and the Lumbar record. He also found time to guest on the last Red Fang...
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Black Sheep Wall – I’m Going to Kill Myself
Harsh. Caustic. Slower than molasses dripping off a tortoise’s nutsack. These are all terms to describe the new Black Sheep Wall album, which isn’t anywhere nearly as friendly as its cover might...
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