Hellbound (Torture Squad album)

Hellbound
Studio album by Torture Squad
Released	April 25, 2008
Recorded	Mr. Som studio, São Paulo, Brazil
Genre	Death metal, thrash metal [1]
Length	51:59 [2]
Label	Voice Music [2] ; Wacken [2]
Producer	Heros Trench, Marcello Pompeu
Torture Squad chronology

Last updated April 06, 2019

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Global Domination	(9/10) ^[3]
Sonic Dice	(favourable) ^[4]

Hellbound is a fifth studio album by Brazilian Death/Thrash metal ^[1] act Torture Squad, released on April 25, 2008^[2] by Wacken Records.^[2]

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the fifth most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populated city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states, the Federal District, and the 5,570 municipalities. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world.

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion, occultism, Lovecraftian horror, nature, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, science fiction, and politics, and they may describe extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. The lyrics often deal with social issues and criticism of The Establishment, using direct and denunciatory language, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk.

Background

In 2007, the band is presented in German festival, Wacken Open Air to play in Metal Battle. With a phenomenal performance convincing the audience and the jury of Metal Battle. The result was victory, that culminated a recording contract with the Wacken Records (formerly called Armageddon Music) for the release of a studio album.^[5]

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Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is an open-air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in summer in the village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Hamburg.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"MMXII (Intro)"	2:19
2.	"Living for the Kill"	4:52
3.	"The Beast Within"	5:14
4.	"The Fall of Man"	4:58
5.	"Chaos Corporation"	4:58
6.	"Man Behind the Mask"	6:25
7.	"Cyberwar"	6:28
8.	"Twilight for All Mankind"	6:46
9.	"The Four Winds"	2:13
10.	"Hellbound"	7:47
Total length:		51:59

Personnel

Vitor Rodrigues – vocals
Maurício Nogueira – guitar
Castor – bass
Amílcar Christófaro – drums

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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References

1 2 Euthanatos (2008-05-26). "Torture Squad – Hellbound". Reviews. Global Domination. Retrieved 2008-07-14. Torture Squad is a Brazilian Death Metal act, one of the most popular nationally and only recently began getting some acknowledgment from the rest of the world.
1 2 3 4 5 "Torture Squad – Hellbound". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 2008-07-14.
↑ Euthanatos. "Global Domination | Reviews | Torture Squad: Hellbound". Globaldomination.se. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
↑ Archived May 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ "Bands – Torture Squad". Wacken Records. Retrieved 2008-07-14.

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[GD-1] 1 2 Euthanatos (2008-05-26). "Torture Squad – Hellbound". Reviews. Global Domination. Retrieved 2008-07-14. Torture Squad is a Brazilian Death Metal act, one of the most popular nationally and only recently began getting some acknowledgment from the rest of the world.

[MA-2] 1 2 3 4 5 "Torture Squad – Hellbound". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 2008-07-14.

[3] Euthanatos. "Global Domination | Reviews | Torture Squad: Hellbound". Globaldomination.se. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

[4] Archived May 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

[5] "Bands – Torture Squad". Wacken Records. Retrieved 2008-07-14.