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EXMORTUS interview: at The Chapel, San Francisco CA, 8 July 2017
Earlier this month Exodus invaded San Francisco to headline two back-to-back nights of heavy metal mayhem at The Chapel. Hellbound’s Mean Gene Gaona and Todd Owens were there and got a chance to hang...
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M.U.T.A.N.K. – W.H.A.T.S.T.H.A.T.
To misquote that great film ‘Conan The Barbarian’, ‘what is good in metal?’ And the short answer is MUTANK! Why? Because they get it. Metal is supposed to be fun, uplifting and life-affirming. It’s...
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Madrost – The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh
Throw those horns, whip your locks and hail the dark lord himself… or at least that’s what Madrost‘s latest crusher, the appropriately titled The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh will have you doing...
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Hellbound video interview: Phil Rind of Sacred Reich in San Francisco, 16...
After a 10-year break, and 21 years after their last new release, Sacred Reich are back on tour in North America, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ignorance, their debut full-length album. Todd...
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Venom Inc. + Goatwhore @ The Mod Club, Toronto, 5 September 2017
Venom are among the most influential heavy metal artists even to this day, responsible for imbuing metal with Satanic theatrics. Venom Inc. is a reunion of three members from the English band’s 1989...
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Municipal Waste – Slime & Punishment
This is music without scepticism; it is created with innocence as all good art should be. Municipal Waste are a band truly born out of time, weaned on a diet of beer, 80s music and films – they create...
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Panzer – Fatal Command
Comprising members of Destruction (bassist and vocalist Schmier), and ex-Accept members Herman Frank on guitars and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann, you would expect the quality of the music from Panzer to...
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Power Trip @ The Velvet Underground, 25 September 2017
Texas five-piece thrashards Power Trip formed during the apex of the thrash revival in 2008. However, unlike the forgettable clone bands that were spawned in this time and have since surpassed their...
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Exhumed – Death Revenge
Bay Area Death Metal veterans Exhumed have a new release coming out October 13th via Relapse Records. It’s entitled Death Revenge, and to put it in simplest terms, it’s brutal as fuck. What you know...
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Aura Noir @ Hard Luck Bar, Toronto, 13 October 2017
Finally, one of the best black thrash metal bands crash lands in Toronto! Norway’s self-proclaimed ugliest band in the world, Aura Noir, are on their maiden North American tour and it feels like a long...
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Buzzard Dust – Buzzard Dust
Buzzard Dust, a genre blending band from Virginia, have crafted a solid debut record. (Full disclosure: the singer gave me a link to the record and I’ve known him for a number of years.) Buzzard Dust...
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Soulfly does Point Blank (NAILBOMB) in Toronto, 19 October 2017
Soulfly does Point Blank by NAILBOMB with Cannabis Corpse, Noisem & Lody Kong October 19, 2017 at The Opera House in Toronto It’s been a while since I’ve written a show review so bear with me. It’s...
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WarCall – Invaders
Like a black metal Motorhead or the mutant offspring of New Wave of British Heavy Metal legends Tank, WarCall really live up to their name! Indeed the comparisons with Motorhead and Tank are apt as...
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Aggression – live in Toronto, 6 November 2017
Aggression + Domination @ Coalition, Toronto, 6th November 2017 Canada’s thrash metal scene is internationally revered. Few can dispute that this nation disproportionately conceived premier thrash...
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Best CANADIAN Metal of 2017: TOP 15
Our contributors’ submissions for this year’s best of Canadian metal list revealed a surprising amount of consensus and an unsurprising amount of varied tastes. We had so little trouble coming up with...
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Piledriver live in Toronto, NYE 2017
The Exalted Piledriver / Maldita @ Coalition, Toronto on December 31st 2017 A metal new year! That’s what every metalhead dreams of for December 31st. The only real metal party in Toronto to tell 2017...
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Against the Grain – Cheated Death
Detroit Rock City road warriors Against the Grain are back with their fourth full-length album, and they’ll surely be coming to your town to help you party it down in the very near future. But in the...
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KREATOR live in Berkeley, CA, 10 Feb 2018
Concert review: SABATON & KREATOR co-headlining in Calibornia, February 2018 On the evening of February 10th my son Benjamin and I were lucky enough to attend a very odd pairing of a couple of...
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Interview: Exmortus guitarist/vocalist Conan, 10 Feb 2018
Exmortus recently had the chance to join Sabaton and Kreator for a few shows in the U.S. and our Mean Gene Gaona grabbed the chance to speak with Jadran ‘Conan’ Gonzalez in the hours leading up their...
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Aura Noir @ Hard Luck Bar, Toronto, 13 October 2017
Finally, one of the best black thrash metal bands crash lands in Toronto! Norway’s self-proclaimed ugliest band in the world, Aura Noir, are on their maiden North American tour and it feels like a long...
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