The long awaited second half of Jay H. Gorania’s tour diary highlight his summer sojourn with UK black metal enthusiasts DRAGGED IN SUNLIGHT. Live photos by Luna Duran.

Earlier this summer Hellbound’s Jay H. Gorania hit the road in the USA with England’s Dragged In Sunlight. Here is the first part of his tour diary accompanying the band on their US tour with Cough.

Live photos by Luna Duran and Albert Mansour.

by Jay H. Gorania
Metal and burgers. If you’re a metalhead who isn’t vegan or vegetarian, that’s a win-win proposition, right? Kuma’s Corner, located in Chicago, has a good reputation, so it seems worth the effort to check it out.
Was it worth the effort? Two word assessment: Hell no. (Not on a Saturday night, anyway.)
After a lengthy wait to be seated, they had a table ready for some of us. We had a party of seven, and we were told five could be seated and the other two would need to …

Jay H. Gorania confesses his never-ending admiration for former Much Music metal VJ Teresa Roncon

I can’t help but wonder, though: Do visible minorities, of any sort, face prejudice on a regular basis? Dear reader, I’d appreciate your feedback.

Good music should move you on some level. These girls are dancing to Meshuggah. No further description is necessary.

By Jay H. Gorania

Friday, March 16

It seems likely only in some perverse, alternate universe that a former member of Today is the Day would be in a band with a member of Fall Out Boy, but it’s true. It’s Milwaukee’s Enabler.
If it wasn’t for the damn crowds and time consuming travel during this year’s SXSW, Hellbound would have caught their entire set. What few songs we did witness, however, were simply incredible. As far as the element of racehorse intensity, they were more impressive than Black Breath, the evening’s …

1808, on the “other side” of the highway, where a crack dealer is literally in sight, the ghetto neighborhood was a fitting home for br00tal music.