The Mighty Decibel

As an impressionable young 22 year old, I remember witnessing legendary Canadian speed merchants Exciter live at the Masonic Temple in Toronto on the Violence & Force tour. It was an eye opening experience that forever launched me into the metal underground, eschewing the large scale spectacle for more intimate settings. Off to the clubs I went! Here, The Mighty Decibel curates the best 40 minutes of early Exciter for your headbanging pleasure. Behold the greatest speed metal

Join The Mighty Decibel as we tackle Led Zeppelin's discography with a critical analysis of each album ... along with a snippet of a track from each to allow you to understand the change in the band's sound over the course of their career. From their days of their youth to their final crawling moments, here you have the mighty Led Zeppelin's recorded output reviewed in 20 minutes.

After three months of amazing releases in a row, the stream slowed down in May ... but fear not, we here at The Mighty Decibel were able to find strong releases in all categories that we cover. Join The Mighty Decibel as we name and listen to our fave albums of May 2022 across four categories: extreme metal (black, thrash and death), doom metal, hardcore punk and hard'n'heavy. Horns high!! VIDEO AUDIO Extreme Metal SHADOW'S MORTUARY - Unohdettu Maa Shadow's Mortuary | Faceboo

Release date: May 20, 2022 Written by Jeff Tighe Impact is Imminent is the 19th studio album from Anvil over the last 41 years. This 14-song, 50-minute effort is standard Anvil traditional heavy metal, and as usual, the results are a bit of a mixed bag. Kicking off the proceedings is a mid-paced stomper, "Take a Lesson" which has a memorable enough chorus. Following is "Ghost Shadow" one of the classic Anvil speedsters that are always among their strongest songs, with a blist

Some would say that Church of the Cosmic Skull is more of a cult than a musical group, but to these ears the term "musical group" seems too trite and the use of "cult" may be overstepping the band's powers of persuasion (maybe!). Perhaps we should call them a cosmic movement instead, an attempt toward attaining ultimate knowledge. Sure, the use of hallucinogenic material may help in processing this, but even those who don't partake (like this beer-addled fan!) can try to clim

Our 'New & Upcoming Releases' podcast series introduces new underground releases to our listeners. This episode we focus solely on extreme metal releases issued in May 2022. Let the mayhem begin! AUDIO VIDEO (0:00) "Ripped Under The Grave" SACRIFIZER - Le Diamant De Lucifer Sacrifizer | Facebook (3:56) "Giblets" COPROPHILIA - The Demo Collection The Demo Collection 1991-1992 | Coprophilia | Regain Records (bandcamp.com) (8:09) "Pohjola" SHADOW'S MORTUARY - Unohdettu Maa Kuole

Review by: Mark McQueen Most reviews will be shorter and more pointed as most of these bands were brand new to me, thus no icon status applies. Slotting, technical foibles, crowd reception, all the other influencers, do apply. Remember, this reviews the set performance, not the band as an entity. If you disagree, to quote The Dude…” well…like…that’s just your opinion, man”. SQUIDHAMMER Four piece with a cute blonde front woman that has that “death metal voice,” and frankly i

For today's playlist we focus on English veterans Thunder where we curate the best 40 minutes from their extensive catalogue. Unfairly maligned to my mind; sure, they played the hair metal card at first, but name a band that didn't bend to current trends at one point in time. Rather, in Thunder we have a hard/classic rock band which happens to include a damned fine lead vocalist in Danny Bowes. Time to dance in the sunshine ... too bad you won't hear it on the radio, though!!

Our Hard'N'Heavy series of podcasts focuses on new traditional metal and hard rock releases ... along with the odd hard rock'n'roll and melodic punk outing. Basically anything that doesn't fit on our Extreme Metal, Hardcore Punk or Doom series! This edition we focus on April and May 2022 releases. Horns up! AUDIO VIDEO (00:00) "Feeling 'Bout This" HOT BREATH - single Hot Breath | Facebook (03:25) "Fire Rain" ANVIL - Impact Is Imminent Anvil | Facebook (6:11) "Now's The Time"

Review by Mark McQueen Heads will be banged. VICIOUS ATTACK (death/thrash out of Chicago) Yep. Band name is correct. Death metal vocals and thrash attack. Vicious is apt. Plain mode of dress and nothing special. That said, I get it (the style) better so I’m not going to trash it. They did change tempos to allow some structure to their numbers. I certainly didn’t love it, but their 30 minutes was adequate to start a five-band show. Crowd was still light, so no pit. Little John