Job For A Cowboy – Demonocracy
By Raymond Westland Within a relatively short amount of time Arizona-based Job For A Cowboy became one of the major forces in extreme metal today. Originally a deathcore act, these Yanks evolved some...
View ArticleA Metal Blade quartet
By Craig Haze Metal Blade celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2012. While the label has already released a plethora of classic and genre-defining albums, and fostered and supported our dearly loved...
View ArticleAlex Webster of Cannibal Corpse: The Hellbound Interview
By Jay H. Gorania Prominent American senators and presidential hopefuls have pointed their fingers at Cannibal Corpse, implying the band is partially responsible for society falling apart. Murder...
View ArticleCattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
By Jonathan Millard-Smith The fifth full-length release from San Diego’s Cattle Decapitation, Monolith of Inhumanity continues the band’s ideological focus on animal cruelty, environmental...
View ArticleChurch of Misery – The Second Coming
By Gruesome Greg It took Church of Misery roughly six years to put out their first full-length album (an earlier recording, Vol. 1, was scrapped when they decided to write solely about serial...
View ArticleCancer Bats – Dead Set On Living
By Bill Adams In the six years since Cancer Bats first started making records, a few phrases have been use to qualify the band’s music that they’ve nearly become cliche. Each time the Bats have...
View ArticleHappy 25th birthday to… Sacrifice’s Forward To Termination!
By Sean Palmerston Today, October 12th, is the 25th anniversary of the release of Forward to Termination, the sophomore album by Scarborough ON thrash metal quartet Sacrifice! Originally released on...
View ArticleBison BC – Lovelessness
By Matt Hinch Ever since 2008′s Quiet Earth, Bison BC have not only been one of my favourite Canadian bands, but one of my favourite bands period. My adoration for the band naturally means that my...
View ArticleHELLBOUND 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...
View ArticleBlood 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...
View ArticleCathedral – The Last Spire
By Matt Hinch Few individuals in the doom metal scene are as revered as Cathedral front man Lee Dorrian. Not only did Dorrian go on to form Cathedral upon his departure from grind legends Napalm...
View ArticleChurch 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...
View ArticleSTAFF 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...
View ArticleGWAR – Battle Maximus
By Bill Adams It would be hard to say that the last couple of years haven’t been uncertain ones for GWAR. That isn’t to say there was any concern that the band wouldn’t continue after the untimely...
View ArticleThe Witchfinder Radio/Hellbound.ca interview with Oderus Urungus
(Photo of Kieran Palmerston with Orderus Urungus and Beefcake of GWAR by Albert Mansour) By Jason Wellwood This interview was conducted with Dave Brockie/Oderus Urungus of GWAR at the end of August,...
View ArticleWitchfinder Radio Playlist For November 18th, 2013
Let’s see if we can’t turn over a new leaf and make this a regular thing (how many times have I said that now?) Download the show here: http://luradio-server.lakeheadu.ca/2013/Witchfinder%20Radio/ (You...
View ArticleHELLBOUND’s TOP 10 CANADIAN METAL ALBUMS OF 2013
If there was ever an indication of just how strong a year Canadian metal had, it was in the flood of album votes that flooded my inbox this past month. A total of 57 titles were chosen by 16 Hellbound...
View ArticleBehemoth – The Satanist
By Danielle Griscti As a tenth album, Poland’s Behemoth offers longtime fans and new listeners The Satanist. This collection of nine tracks is both instantly recognizable as the work of these...
View ArticleSlough Feg – Digital Resistance
By Danielle Griscti Even if, like me, you’re not exactly an expert on SLOUGH FEG, I’m willing to bet your face will hurt by the end of the first track. “Lost and forgotten it’s his greatest fear, the...
View ArticleMount Salem – Endless
Originally released in 2013, Endless comprised the first six tracks the spankin’ new Chicago band Mount Salem wrote. That caught the attention of Metal Blade, who’ve reissued the release with two new...
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