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Borealis – World of Silence MMXVII

It’s been nearly seven years since I reviewed an independently-released debut album from a power metal band out of Orangeville, Ontario. I liked the first Borealis record then, and unlike some of the...

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Pounder – Heavy Metal Disaster

What can you say: Matt Harvey is one busy artist. If trying to juggle his other bands Dekapitator, Exhumed, and Gruesome wasn’t enough, he goes and offers us this new project entitled Pounder....

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Argus – From Fields of Fire

It’s been a while since we last heard from Argus. Their last album, Beyond the Martyrs, was released in 2013, and when combined with a lack of appearances on any notable U.S. underground doomfests...

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Black Wizard – Livin’ Oblivion

Black Wizard’s last album, 2016’s New Waste, just narrowly missed our Hellbound Top 10 Canadian albums… and it’s probably my fault. I think I had it at Number 11 or 12 on my own list—not that there was...

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The best uncelebrated metal of 2017

2017 was a solid year for metal, no doubt. I’ve noticed, while perusing “year end” lists, a lot of the same things coming in at the top. Credit where credit is due – some of the metal genre’s best...

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Age of Taurus – The Colony Slain

Age of Taurus, as I last remember them, were a doom band in the British tradition of the genre. Their debut album, 2013’s Desperate Souls of Tortured Times, was very much in the vein of Candlemass,...

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Hoth – Astral Necromancy

Seattle’s Hoth released Oathbreaker back in 2014 and I was captivated. Extreme metal with a Star Wars angle? Sold. But on that album the concept was veiled and perhaps only people familiar with Star...

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Khemmis – Desolation

It’s not uncommon for a more traditional doom band to take a turn toward power metal—Argus first made strides in this direction with Boldly Strides the Doomed, while Age of Taurus is leaning much more...

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Cloven Hoof in Toronto, September 2018

Cloven Hoof live @ Coalition T.O on Tuesday 18th September 2018 Make way for heavy metal royalty! New wave of British heavy metal veterans Cloven Hoof are making their debut in Canada, with Toronto...

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Gloryhammer @ The Mill Digbeth

22.10.2019, Birmingham, UK When I turned round the corner onto Lower Trinity Street where tonight’s venue The Mill is located I couldn’t believe my eyes – the queue was the same length as the whole...

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