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Edguy – Age of the Joker
By Jason Wellwood I’ve always been on the fence when it comes to Edguy. Tobias Sammet has an incredible voice, and when he puts his mind to it, can write great songs. However, the last few albums from...
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Iced Earth – Festivals of the Wicked
By Rob Kachluba Finally, Iced Earth has released a dvd worthy of watching. After that huge debacle of the Alive in Athens video that was put out with John Shaefer showing his digust about it in...
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ProgPower USA 2011 @ Center Stage, Atlanta, GA September 15th to 17th, 2011
Mrs. Kachluba and their pal Larry at ProgPower USA 2011 Words and Photos By Rob Kachluba After having been away for the last four years, I finally made my return back to Atlanta for ProgPower, but just...
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DRAGONFORCE GETS GRILLED BY A NINE-YEAR-OLD
By Kevin and Sam Stewart-Panko So, England’s Dragonforce – a power metal band for those who chug down energy drinks for breakfast – recently made an appearance in Toronto as part of a short series of...
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Castle – Blacklands
By Gruesome Greg Album number two from this Bay Area female-fronted doom trio. Funeral doom this is not—eight tracks spanning less than 36 minutes. From the upbeat (if none too uplifting) chugs and...
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Sabaton @ Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, NC, April 25, 2012
Review and Photos by Justin Richardson With Art of War being released a few years ago, Sabaton gained a lot of recognition despite power metal not being as popular as it was in the late 90’s and early...
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Sabaton – Carolus Rex
by Jason Wellwood Hellbound readers are, no doubt, aware by now that I dig Sabaton. Not that their entire output has made me war-crazy, power metal mad, but their recent albums have certainly found...
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70,000 Tons of Metal 2013, Part One
Review by Adrien Begrand; Live photos by Marc Hansen, Michael Jagla, and Ag Babin. After attending Barge to Hell in December, I had absolutely no idea that I’d be returning to Miami some five weeks...
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70,000 Tons of Metal 2013, Part Two
Read part 1 of our 70,000 Tons review here Review by Adrien Begrand; Live photos by Marc Hansen, Michael Jagla, Ag Babin, and Adrien Begrand. Day Two, 285 nautical miles southwest of Miami: Unexpect,...
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70,000 Tons of Metal 2013, Part Three
Read part 1 of our 70,000 Tons review here Read part 2 of our 70,000 Tons review here Review by Adrien Begrand; Live photos by Marc Hansen, Michael Jagla, Ag Babin, and Adrien Begrand. Day Three: Grand...
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Atlantean Kodex – The White Goddess
By Gruesome Greg Another highly-anticipated album for yours truly, The White Goddess is the long-awaited follow-up to the German power-doom band’s 2010 debut, The Golden Bough. Mind you, crafting a...
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Hammerfall – Gates of Dalhalla
By Lauren Leuschner Sweden’s own Hammerfall have taken a well deserved break in 2013, but before they go on to the next chapter the band has chosen to commemorate 15 years together with a very special...
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Iced Earth – Plagues of Babylon
By Jason Wellwood Apparently Dystopia was a hard act to follow for Jon Schaffer and company if the reviews I’ve seen are to be believed. And I can believe it: Dystopia was a solid album and featured...
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Crimson Shadows: Ready to Take on the World
Hellbound is a Canadian-based metal site. That doesn’t determine our coverage – we can appreciate, evaluate and cover heavy tunes from anywhere in the world. But we do like to support our fellow...
View ArticleThe Socks (self-titled)
These Socks don’t stink! The French quartet brews a blend of pungent, throwback heavy psych on their Small Stone debut. Kicking off with “Lords of Illusion,” The Socks use their illusion to channel...
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Amon Amarth, Sabaton, and Skeletonwitch in Charlotte NC, October 24, 2014
Photos by Justin Richardson Want to read a review of the Thunder Bay show on the same tour? Check it out here – review by Jonathan Smith, photos by Scott Hobbes. The post Amon Amarth, Sabaton, and...
View ArticleViathyn – Cynosure
Once again, another self-release that would put a major label to shame, this is of the same quality as many a band on, for example, Nuclear Blast. The music is very heavy, but progressive, and very...
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Crypt Sermon – Out of the Garden
Everything about Crypt Sermon just screams power-metal (in a Dio-style falsetto) to me. The name, the font, the album cover of a knight riding up to a castle…and yet, I’m told they have more than a...
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Visigoth – The Revenant King
I’m probably the last person I’d expect to see reviewing an album by a band such as Salt Lake City’s Visigoth. I’m usually the coward running the other way when “power metal” is mentioned but something...
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King Hitter – self-titled
Though it’s not unheard of for me to review a band that’s completely unheard of, this North Carolina outfit comes with a bit of history—namely, frontman Karl Agell sang on Corrosion of Conformity’s...
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