A Heavy Metal Podcast - The Mighty Decibel

We continue on with our Best of the Decade series where we turn our attention to the first decade of the speed metal sub-genre ... the 80s. Your ears will be under attack!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Under Attack": EXCITER - Heavy Metal Maniac (4:17) "Wiped Out": RAVEN - Rock Until You Drop (8:42) "The Final Command": SLAYER - Show No Mercy (11:12) "Metal Thrashing Mad": ANTHRAX - Fistfull of Metal (13:55) "Headbanging Man": GRAVE DIGGER - Heavy Metal Breakdown Side 2 (17:32) "Diabolic Force": RUNNING WILD - Gates To Purgatory (22:37) "Violence and Force": EXCITER - Violence & Force (26:45) "Ride the Sky": HELLOWEEN - Walls of Jericho (32:40) "Metal Merchants": HALLOWS EVE - Tales of Terror (36:00) "Sudden Impact": EXCITER - Long Live the Loud

Looking for some overlooked underground metal/hardcore punk releases? Welcome back to The MIghty Decibel's New & Upcoming Metal Releases series where we provide you with five metal, hard rock, and hardcore punk releases that you may have missed. Welcome to the underground!!! WHITEHOVSE - The MIghty One FASTER - Speed For Satan ZIG ZAGS - Deadbeat At Dawn MASSGRAV - Pizza Speciale LUCILLE - Dawn of Destruction

Welcome to our new series where we'll supply our fave tracks of each month for your listening pleasure. Whether it be extreme metal, doom, hardcore punk or hard'n'heavy, you'll hear the best of each sub-genre here. Welcome to the underground!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Get Loud": ZIG ZAGS - Deadbeat At Dawn (3:40) "Beyond the Thunder": TUMBA - Beyond the Thunder (5:45) "Waterfront": KENTUCKY GREEN - Mammoth (10:05) "A Hungering Yoke": WARMOON LORD - Sacrosanct Demonopathy (15:26) "Resurrection of the Graveless": GRACELESS - Icons of Ruin (19:11) "Bullshitter": THE OWEN GUNS - Songs About Fucking Idiots Side 2 (21:01) "Intro": SERENITUS - Tranquility in Serenity (23:34) "No Light": SWITCHBLADE - Demo 2025 (26:48) "Die Like Dogs": ACID MASS - Violent End (28:50) "Czas Zaplaty": PLAGA - Demo (30:13) "Ignite": CRYSTAL SPIDERS - Metanois (33:58) "Kolmiomainen nolla": KOVAA RASVAA - Tarinska Paketoitu Valhe (35:00) "Far From the Tree": THE OSSUARY - Requiem For the Sun

Welcome to yet another edition of our Discography Review series here at The Mighty Decibel. This time out we provide critical analysis of the six album run by the original NWOBHM unit, Tank! Get ready for the heavy artillery!!!

Once more we delve into the metal underground to unearth the best in obscure releases, this time for April and May 2025. Bow to your knees and repent if you please! TAAR Catharsis Till Dawn | Taär RATTLESNAKES Facebook PLASTIKA Music | PLASTIKA MASTER CHARGER Posthumous Resurrection | Master Charger THE OWEN GUNS Songs About Fucking Idiots | The Owen Guns

We've hit the midway mark of the 20s decade, so it's a good time to look back and appreciate the best hard'n'heavy tracks issued this decade so far. In our lexicon, hard'n'heavy includes trad metal, speed metal, hard rock, prog rock, rock'n'roll and punk rock. Anything heavy that doesn't fit on our three other categories we cover her at The Mighty Decibel. Join us and be redeemed!!! Side 1 (0:00) "I Am Redeemed": WYTCH HAZEL - III:Pentecost (3:52) "Scene of the Wild": WITCHSEEKER - Scene of the Wild (6:22) "Golden Light": URIAH HEEP - Chaos & Colour (11:31) "No One Wins": BLOOD STAR - First Sighting (14:09) "Han(d) Solo": ALPHA BOYS - Saviours of Rock'N'Roll (16:42) "The Exit Garden": THE WIZARDS - The Exit Garden Side 2 (25:38) "The Executioner's Woe": BLAZEN RITE - Endless Halls of Golden Totem (29:13) "To Those": STYX - Crash of the Crown (32:14) "Northern Skyline": LORD GOBLIN - Lord Goblin (38:42) "Nary Do-Gooder": THE REAL MCKENZIES - Beer and Loathing (40:48) "Scythian Women": SANHEDRIN - Lights On

Welcome to our new series where we'll supply our fave tracks of each month for your listening pleasure. Whether it be extreme metal, doom, hardcore punk or hard'n'heavy, you'll hear the best of each sub-genre here. Welcome to the underground!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Mass Produced Hatred" + "Ruination": ULTIMATE DISASTER - ... For Progress (2:07) "Rata": FUNERAL DAMAGE - Muerte (5:16) "nije sadnja" + "mukka": PLASTIKA - Sijamski Blizanac (8:27) "Feathered Echoes of Wrath": TAAR - Catharsis 'Til Dawn (12:58) "Love Me Harder": RATTLESNAKES - Deeper Shades of Torment (17:30) "Manufactured Entropy": PHAGOCYTE - Don't Rain on My Parade Or I'll Fucking Kill You (19:10) "Blind (So Fucking Blind)": THE CHRIS ROLLING SQUAD - Damn You All To ... Hell Side 2 (21:23) "Set My Heart on Fire": THE RIVEN - Visions of Tomorrow (24:37) "Predateure": BOMBARDEMENT - A "L'Ombre Des Crassiers - Live! (26:37) "Screaming Demons in Your Head": AXEBLADE - S/T (30:35) "No Free Lunch": TOWER OF ONE - Tour Tape (31:54)"Violent Invasion": PHANTOM - Tyrants of Wrath (35:53) "Fire": DART - Speed Days (36:48) "Vicious Circle": PHANE - Is This 2024 ... Or 1984? (39:12) "Anarchy": EN LA MUERTE - Anti Todo

Join us for the third episode in our Best Tracks By The Decade series, this time focusing on the elite hard rock tracks of the 1970s. Let it roll!!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Draw the Line": AEROSMITH - Draw the Line (3:20) "Kicked in the Teeth": AC/DC - Powerage (7:14) "Just What the Doctor Ordered": TED NUGENT - S/T (11:00) "The World Anthem": FRANK MARINO & MAHOGANY RUSH - World Anthem (14:10) "Whatever You Want Babe": NAZARETH - No Mean City (18:04) "Drop It (An Old Disguise)": REO SPEEDWAGON - Nine Lives Side 2 (21:18) "Circumstances": RUSH - Hemispheres (25:03) "Let It Roll": UFO - Force It (29:00) "Custard Pie": LED ZEPPELIN - Physical Grafitti (33:16) "Smokin'": BOSTON - S/T (37:37) "Superstars": STYX - The Grand Illusion

It's time for another epsiode of our Discography Review series ... this time focused on self proclaimed 'kings of metal' ... Manowar!!! Whether you bow at the feet of the bringer's of black wind or think that it's all an OTT facade, delve into the dicography with The Mighty Decibel for a discerning look at their 11 album inventory. Hail and kill!!!!

Once more we delve into the metal underground to unearth the best in obscure releases, this time for early April. There were so many great releases in the first week of the month that it warranted it's own episode! Bow to your knees and repent if you please! SERPENT RIDER - The Ichor of Chimaera The Ichor of Chimaera | Serpent Rider ULTIMATE DISASTER - For Progress ULTIMATE DISASTER - For progress ... 12" | ULTIMATE DISASTER | Kick Rock FUNERAL DAMAGE - Muerte Funeral Damage "Muerte" | DIY Kontraatak DART - Speed Days AG145 // DART "Speed Days" | Agipunk Records FRELSER - Afgrundsprofeti Afgrundsprofeti | Frelser

Welcome to our new series where we'll supply our fave tracks of each month for your listening pleasure. Whether it be extreme metal, doom, hardcore punk or hard'n'heavy, you'll hear the best of each sub-genre here. Rip it up!!! Side 1 (0:00) "L'Ere Du Calvaire": BOMBARDEMENT - Dans La Fournaise (2:44) "Tribute To Creation": IMPURITY - The Eternal Sleep (6:28) "Into the Abysmal Maw": NIVEOUS - Endless Snowfall (10:16) "Blind Wolf": SANHEDRIN - Heat Lightning (14:42) "Thrash Me Baby One More Time"/"Sad Little Man": CRIPPLED FOX - Split EP w/LICKSPLIT (16:03) "Hiisi Tanssi": UKKO'S HAMMER - S/T (18:39) "Rabbit Killer": KADAVERMARCH - S/T Side 2 (23:50) "Frozen Fortress 1942": FRONTSCHWEIN - Faces of War (27:18) "Tyrants March": SERPENT RIDER - The Ichor of Chimaera (32:21) "Mukava mies": UHRIT - Niille, jotka jaivat kotiin (33:28) "Infernal Abyss": CURSED DARKNESS - Monoliths of Eternal Night (36:11) "Demonic Invasion To Gethsemane": NECROCHAKAL - Golgothian Orgies of Bestial Lust

The Mighty Decibel names its top 5 hard & heavy releases of the decade to date. Hail! Too Much Bullshit LP | Death Ridge Boys Scene of the Wild | Witchseeker Lord Goblin | Lord Goblin Chaos & Colour - Wikipedia Styxworld.com | Styxworld

The Mighty Decibel names its fave metal/hardcore punk releases of March 2025

Time for some visual candy from Canucklehead progsters Rush! Specifically we'll be celebrating live versions of tracks from the self-titled debut through the Farewell To Kings opus. Relive the glory!

We've hit the midway mark of the 20s decade, so it's a good time to look back and appreciate the best doom tracks issued this decade so far. Warning: we lean heavily toward the stoner doom side of the equation, but there is some sludge and psych representation as well. Doom on!!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Grendel": GRAND MAGUS - Sunraven (3:21) "Astro Tongue": HEX A.D. - Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden (7:46) "High Noon in Sword City": 10,000 YEARS - All's Quiet on the Final Frontier (11:36) "Age of the Idiot": FREEDOM HAWK - Take All You Can (15:32) "Bending the Will": BLACK FLARE - S/T Side 2 (19:51) "Dwarvanaught": PETH - Merchant of Death (24:28) "Earthrise": THE QUILL - Earthrise (29:02) "Ash and Stone": MOONSTONE - S/T (38:08) "Wish You Well": ERIC WAGNER - In the Light of Mournin

Some more metal records issued in February that you should check out. Keep kickin' ass!!! HEDONIST - Eat Thus Eat Thus | Hedonist LIGHTNING SWELLS FOREVER - Delirium Delirium | Lightning Swells Forever STONE CREAM - Stonified Blues Stonified Blues | Stone Cream SCUMRAID - The End THE END (2024 EP) | SCUMRAID FARCE - Sights of War Sights of war | Farce | sistema mortal AD HOMINEM - Totalitarian Black Metal AD HOMINEM - Napalm For All (2018) - out on 04/13/2018 VULTUR - Cultores de Perdas E Linna Cultores de Perdas e Linna | Vultur | Masked Dead Records

Welcome to our new series where we'll supply our fave tracks of each month for your listening pleasure. Whether it be extreme metal, doom, hardcore punk or hard'n'heavy, you'll hear the best of each sub-genre here. Rip it up!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Incoming Mass Extinction": SACRIFICE - Volume 6 (2:01) "Resilience": SHATTER - Deny the Future (4:22) "Cloaked By Nothingness": FRIGHTFUL - What Lies Ahead (10:08) "Choke the Woke": AD HOMINEM - Totalitarian Black Metal (14:38) "Pure Scum": SHORT LEASH - S/T (15:39) "Queen": LIGHTNING SWELLS FOREVER - Delirium (19:55) "Umbras": VULTUR - Cultores de Perdas e Linna Side 2 (23:56) "Halsmaul": RANZER - Leidkulter (26:09) "Fight Back": WARBITCH - Summoned (27:36) "Golden Voodoo Witch": HEDONIST - Eat Thus (31:23) "Urge To Kill": DEVIL'S GATEWAY - Shreds of Life (35:14) "Revenge" + "Struggle": SCUMRAID - The End (37:21) "They Kick You When You're Down": THE RUMJACKS - Dead Anthems

Wanna have your head blown off? You've come to the right place! Press play (if you dare!) and you'll be submitting yourself to the sounds of the very best hardcore punk/d-beat/metal punk/grind tracks of the half decade to date. Your safe space isn't here!!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Break It Down"/"Voice To Change": M.V-11 - Six Songs EP (4:13) "Immondice"/"Predateur": BOMBARDEMENT - Le Futur Et La (8:17) "Leech"/"Hope?": HOPE? - Dead and Gone (12:40) "Hacked Humanity"/"Voice of Reason": EMISSARIES OF SYN - The Core Assumptions of Human Insecurity (15:34) "Library"/"NFT": SOOKS - Moral Decay (19:58) "Torches"/"Hail To the Emperor": DROPDEAD - Dropdead 2020 Side 2 (22:11) "Pray"/"Testify": DISCIPLE B.C. - Blood, Power, Sacrifice (26:31) "Sonic Rites of Rock'N'Roll"/"Basement Rockers": DOG ATTACK - Sonic Rites of Rock'N'Roll (30:39) "Live In Peace"/"Turn the Tide": DARK HARVEST COMMANDOS - S/T (33:17) "Your Safe Space Isn't Here": PERDITION SECT - End Times (35:39) 'Enenra": OSSACRUX - Complete Discography (38:12) "Agony": TYSTVAR - S/T (40:33) "Prision": DISBRIGADE - Catastrofe Mundial

Let's go back to 1974 and relive the highlights of the legendary first verion of the Cal Jam festival. They knew how to rock even back then!

Hey fellow ragers - time to shine a spotlight on The Mighty Decibel's fave new and upcoming releases for February and March 2025. Whether it be extreme metal, doo metal, hardcore punk or hard'n'heavy, we've got you covered. Rage on!!! WARBITCH - Summoned Summoned | Warbitch RANZER - Leidkulter Leidkultur | Ranzer SHATTER - Deny the Future SHATTER - DENY THE FUTURE | Shatter | Desolate Records FRIGHTFUL - What Lies Ahead What Lies Ahead | FRIGHTFUL |

Welcome to our new series where we'll supply our fave tracks of each month for your listening pleasure. Whether it be extreme metal, doom, hardcore punk or hard'n'heavy, you'll hear the best of each sub-genre here. Rip it up!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Bowels In Bowl": DRUNK THRASHER - Posercorpses (2:54) "Sisters of the Light": PARISH - single (6:37) "Chanting Ancient Incantations": PYRE - Where Obscurity Sways (9:29) "No Time For Tomorrow": CENTURY - Sign of the Storm (11:48) "Abysal Putrefaction": MURA - Needle Cathedral (17:42) "Off With Their Heads": RAWHEADS - S/T Side 2 (19:45) "Bonded By Hate": SCRUDA - Fury Among Ruins (21:09) "Neck Breaker Mountain": THE CIMMERIAN - An Age Undreamed Of ... (26:43) "Dumb": CHURCH CLOTHES - Moral Jerk (28:06) "Nothing's Free": MEAN MISTREATER - Do Or Die (31:25) "Death Stare": ON FIRE - Bite the Blade (35:57) "Open Sore/Spite": TOWER OF ONE - Invisible Fence

Bonus episode! There were/are so many great releases coming out in January it warrants a follow-up episode of our New & Upcoming Releases series. Keep kickin' ass!!!

The Mighty Decibel kicks off a new series where name 5 new and upcoming metal/hardcore punk releases that warrant your attention.

The Mighty Decibel lays out its plans for 2025

We close out 2024 with our annual playlist highlighting the best metal/hard rock/hardcore punk/rock'n'roll tracks of the year. Here's hoping for another great year in metal for 2025. Horns high!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Slave of the Blade": MIDNIGHT - Hellish Expectations (1:50) "Northern Skyline": LORD GOBLIN - Lord Goblin (8:15) "Pray": DISCIPLE B.C. - Blood, Power, Sacrifice (10:26) "Sunraven": GRAND MAGUS - Sunraven (14:03) "N.F.T.": SOOKS - Moral Decay (16:14) "Holy Mountain Mind": THE WIZARDS - The Exit Garden (20:52) "Attack of the Zombie Cans": CULT OF ORPIST - Attack of the Zombie Cans Side 2 (24:41) "Live In Peace": DARK HARVEST COMMANDOS - Dark Harvest Commandos (26:17) "High Noon in Sword City": 10,000 YEARS - All Quiet on the Final Frontie (30:04) "Sarin Attack": ERASER - Harmony Dies (30:56) "Eyes of the World": THE OUTCAST CREW - Rovin' Again (34:23) "Fallen Angel": LUCIFER - V (37:51) "Ruination": ULTIMATE DISASTER - Demo 2024 (38:34) "Razor Wire": MEAN MISTREATER - Razor Wire (41:33) "Violent Settlements": GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR - Total Demonstration (43:07) "Awaken the Night": VULGAR DEVILS - Witches Wheel

Join The Mighty Decibel as we name our top ten albums of 2024. Hail!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!! FRELSER - Demo MMXXIV THE OUTCAST CREW - Rovin' Again DARK HARVEST COMMANDOS - S/T 10,000 YEARS - All Quiet on the Final Frontier GRAND MAGUS - Sunraven MIDNIGHT - Hellish Expectations SOOKS - Moral Decay LORD GOBLIN - S/T DISCIPLE B.C. - Blood, Power, Sacrifice THE WIZARDS - The Exit Garden

The Mighty Decibel provides you, our fearless listeners, with the soundtrack of extreme metal for 2023. From death defying death metal, to burnt-to-the-crisp black metal to speed obsessed thrash metal ... and beyond ... this playlist will challenge even the hardest of extremists ears. Are you heavy enough?! Side 1 (0:00) "F.O.A.L.": MIDNIGHT - Hellish Expectations (2:48) "Frelser!": FRELSER - Demo MMXXIV (6:51) "Attack of the Zombie Cans": CULT OF ORPIST - Attack of the Zombie Cans (10:40) "Alkoholocaustic Hammer": WRATHHAMMER - Wrathhammer (13:28) "Go For the Throat": CHAINSAW - Chainsaw (17:41) "I Begin": AZZAYA - I Begin Side 2 (21:45) "Diabolical Edict": BRODEQUIN - Harbinger of Woe (25:09) "Lisan Al Nar": AL-NAMROOD - Al Aqrab (28:12) "Thrash Compactor": HOLLOW FLAG - Beware of Moshing (29:59) "Der letze Feind": AD MORTEM - In Honorem Mortis (34:01) "Blind World": REFORE - Illusion of Excellence (37:54) "Corruption": KRYPT - Great Spawn of the Worms of Earth

This episode we focus solely on extreme metal releases issued in November and December 2024. Hear the best thrash, death and black metal releases issued over the past two months. Let the mayhem begin! (0:00) "We Are the Creeping Plague" AN-XUL - S/T An-Xul | AN-XUL | Chaos Records                                            (5:36) "Let His Servants Starve" TRIBAL GAZE - Deadbody DEADBODY | TRIBAL GAZE (9:45) "The Demonic Vision of Satan's Wrath" BLOODMOON ECLIPSE - For I Am Your Death Purity Through Fire Shop - Bloodmoon Eclipse - For I Am Your Death CD (15:07) "Attack With Hellfire" INVERTED CROSS - Eternal Flames of Hell Eternal Flames Of Hell | Inverted Cross (18:40) "Beata Fornicanda" FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM - Perfida Contraccao do Aco Pérfida Contracção do Aço | Filii Nigrantium Infernalium (21:42) "Locust Cathedral" ICON OF EVIL - Locust Cathedral Locust Cathedral | ICON OF EVIL | Selfmadegod

Join The Mighty Decibel as we celebrate the year in hard'n'heavy (trad metal, hard rock, speed metal, prog rock/metal, etc.) by naming our fave releases of 2024.

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 November and December 2024 releases. Horns up! (00:00) "Bathory" VIPERWITCH - Witch Hunt : Road To Vengeance Witch Hunt: Road to Vengeance | Vipërwitch (03:43) "Dominion" DAEDRIC SHRYNE - S/T Daedric Shryne | Daedric Shryne (7:03) "The Clock Tower" GLOOMY REFLECTIONS - Oath of the Paladins Oath of the Paladins | Gloomy Reflections | Crypt of the Wizard (12:05) "Death Dealer" SKULLOVICH - The Age of Steel The Age of Steel | Skullovich (15:37) Black Roses" LUND - Ancient Steel Ancient Steel | LÜND (20:26) "Punx in the Streets REIFER MADNESS - Destroy Authority Reifer Madness - Destroy Authority | Root Records (23:22) "Venom" ICE WAR - Venom Venom | ICE WAR (27:43) "Master of the Games" DEMON BITCH - Master of the Games Master of the Games | Demon Bitch (31:23) "Living Dead" THE CIRCULATORS - Insufficient Fun Insufficient Fun | The Circulators

Behold the trad/speed metal / hard rock / punk / rock'n'roll soundtrack to the year that was. These bands came gunnin' for you!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Forget It": MEAN MISTREATER - Razor Wire (3:10) "Light of a Black Sun, Pt 2": LORD GOBLIN - Lord Goblin (7:36) "Awaken the NIght": VULGAR DEVILS - Witches Wheel (12:04) "The Exit Garden": THE WIZARDS - The Exit Garden (18:59) "Find a Way Back Home": THE OUTCAST CREW - Rovin' Again (22:21) "The Serpent and the King": JUDAS PRIEST - Invincible Shield Side 2 (26:40) "Mata Hari": AVALON - Tower of Babel (29:31) "Point Blank": KILLER KIN - single (32:55) "The Grape & the Grain": THEIGNS & THRALLS - The Keep & The Spire (36:45) "Ride With the Devil": SPEEDRUSH - Division Mortality (41:07) Round the Bend": THE ZEALOUS CHIEFTAINS - Cosmic 12 Gauge (45:10) "Cut Down By the Chainsaw": STEEL INFERNO - Rush of Power

The Mighty Decibel names its fave hardcore punk/d-beat/grindcore/metal punk releases of 2024 ... all of which garnered at least a 9 out of 10 on our scoring scale. 12. TEIGNE - Show Me Your Pain 11. GET A GRIP - Destiny 10. VENGANZA - Damnatio Memoriae 9. MOB 47 - Tills Du Dor 8. RUINED VIRTUE - Demo 7. TERROR ATTACK - S/T 6. GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR - Total Demonstration 5. ULTIMATE DISASTER - Demo 2024 4. ERASER - Harmony Dies 3. DARK HARVEST COMMANDOS - S/T 2. SOOKS - Moral Decay 1. DISCIPLE B.C. - Blood, Power, Sacrifice

What a great year for hardcore punk, grindcore, d-beat and metal punk. Tons of great releases throughout the year blitzed our ears here at The Mighty Decibel Central, so coming up with a best-of-the-year playlist was quite the challenge. So here you go ... if you can handle it. Grind it up, baby!!! Side 1 (0:00) "NFT": SOOKS - Moral Decay (2:11) "Testify": DISCIPLE B.C. - Blood, Power, Sacrifice (4:20) "Live In Peace / Turn the Tide": DARK HARVEST COMMANDOS - Dark Harvest Commandos (6:56) "Sarin Attack / Nuclearize All Weapons": ERASER - Harmony Dies (9:08) "Ruination / Never Ending Slaughter": ULTIMATE DISASTER - Demo 2024 (11:14) "In the Ghetto": TERROR ATTACK - Terror Attack (13:08) "Violent Settlements": GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR - Total Demonstration (14:38 "Mind Scabbed Over": YELLOWCAKE - A Fragmented Truth (17:49) "Moder Jord": MOB 47 - Tills Du Dor (19:00) "The Eunuch": RUINED VIRTUE - Demo (21:31) "Make No Mistake": GET A GRIP - Destiny Side 2 (23:29) "Noise": TEIGNE - Show Me Your Pain (25:06) "Zaragoza Fecal": VENGANZA - Damnatio Memoriae (27:17) "Left Behind": STILL PIST! - Our Life, Our Fight! (29:34) "Grit": SUSPEX - Technically Deficient (31:46) "100 Degree Celsius": FRENZEE - What's Wrong With Me (34:00) "Ragged Trousers": REVIVAL - Revival (35:34) "A Different World": MAXXPOWER - Split w/COMPLETED EXPOSITION (36:29) "Moral Decay": BLASTARD - Demo 2024 (39:22) "Jesus Freaks": THREE FUCKING IMPERS - Ready To Rumble (40:25) "If This is Punk I Am Not": CRIPPLED FOX - Fast Thrashing (41:20) "Wankers": SUFFOCATING MADNESS - Unrelenting Forced Psychosis

Welcome to Hardcore Punk Week here at The Mighty Decibel. Later this week we'll be posting a curated playlist of the best hardcore punk tracks of the year and we'll be closing off the week by naming our fave hardcore punk releases of 2024. But first, it's time to revel in the new hardcore punk, d-beat, metal punk and grindcore releases issued from November and December 2024. Grind 'til death!! (0:00) "Noise" + "More" TEIGNE - Show Me Your Pain Show me your pain | TEIGNE (4:36) "Moral Decay" BLASTARD - Demo 2024 Demo 2024 | Blastard (7:39) "Dying In Trenches" VOLTAGE - Mania Mania | VOLTAGE (10:12) "Persedillas" + "Fuera" DISPUTA - Maldito Sistema Demo MALDITO SISTEMA DEMO [TSOPR-028] | DISPUTA | The Seats Of Piss (12:49) "Maldiciones perfidas" + "Aberraciones morbidas" CANNIBAL FEROX - Rituales de Transmutacion Rituales de Transmutación | Cannibal Ferox (17:46) "Atomic Sorcery" UNHOLY NIGHT - Atomic Sorcery Unholy Night - Atomic Sorcery | Unholy Night | Motorpunk Records (21:18) "Old Man" + "Girl" ROGER'S PORN COLLECTION - S/T ROGER`S PORN COLLECTION-s/t LP | ROGER`S PORN COLLECTION | JUST 4 FUN RECORDS (25:38) "Thiokol" + "Bombarded" DESTRUCT - To Stop the Conflict LiFE / DESTRUCT - TO STOP THE CONFLICT | LiFE / DESTRUCT | Desolate Records (28:42) "Motorcity Madhouse" NUKE - Metal Punk Vol. 1 Metal Punk, Vol. I | Motorpunk Records

Welcome to the end of Stoner Doom Metal Week here at The Mighty Decibel where we've been celebrating the year in doom. Today we'll be capping off the week by naming our fave doom releases of 2024. After preparing monthly decibel drenched New Release Mondays of harrowing doom for your bleeding ears, we believe we are properly placed to name the cream of the doom crop for the year. We're all doomed!!!!

Join The Mighty Decibel as we name our fave albums of November 2024 across four categories: extreme metal, stoner doom, hardcore punk and hard'n'heavy. Hail!!!

We continue on with our Stoner Doom Metal Week here at The Mighty Decibel with a specially curated playlist of harrowing doom. Join The Mighty Decibel for our specially curated look (listen?) at the best in stoner doom metal for the year (along with some death doom, psych and sludge). Listen along and have all your hopes and dreams, along with your skull, crushed! We're all doomed!!! Side 1 (0:00) "High Noon in Sword City": 10,000 YEARS - All Quiet on the Final Frontier (3:48) "The Black Lake": GRAND MAGUS - Sunraven (9:20) "Winter Sun": TYPHUZZ - Typhuzz (12:10) "Let Them Burn": BOTTOMLESS - The Banishing (16:48) "Fallen Angel": LUCIFER - V (19:57) "Inquisitor": ODA - Bloodstained Side 2 (25:36) "Countess Hell": LUST RITUAL - Forbidden Rites (31:26) "Walpurgis": EARLY MOODS - A Sinners Past (36:43) "Sold My Soul To Satan": ANCIENT VVISDOM - Master of the Stone (40:45) "Burning World": THE WATCHER - Out of the Dark (44:31) "Independent Terror": DEAF LIZARD - The Last Odyssey

Welcome to Stoner Doom Metal Week here at The Mighty Decibel where we kick off proceedings with a New Release Monday episode ... stoner doom style. This episode we spotlight new and upcoming releases from November and December 2024 in stoner doom metal, along with a smattering of death doom, psych and sludge, of course. We're all doomed! (0:00) "The Weight of a Feather" 10,000 YEARS - All Quiet on the Final Frontier All Quiet On The Final Frontier | 10,000 Years (5:18) "Burning World" THE WATCHER - Out of the Dark Out of the Dark | The Watcher (9:22) "Independent Terror" DEAF LIZARD - The Last Odyssey Deaf Lizard - The Last Odyssey | Electric Valley Records (13:39) "Laid To Waste" STONE DISCIPLE - Stoner Thrash Stoner Thrash | STONE DISCIPLE (17:00) "Gallows Raised" HELIOPHAGE - A Cult of Weird, Horrible People A Cult of Weird, Horrible People | Heliophage (21:21) "Monsters Reign" EIGHT FOOT MANCHILD - Do Spirits Return? Do Spirits Return? - EP | Eight Foot Manchild (26:07) "King Crow" DAWNRIDER - Five Signs of Malice Five Signs Of Malice | DAWNRIDER (30:58) "Sativa Bomb" GRAVE NEXT DOOR - Sorry No Candy Sorry No Candy | Grave Next Door (33:15) "Horizon" OBERON - Cosmic Wanderlust Cosmic Wanderlust | Oberon

Van Halen were unquestionnably the kings of metal in the late 70s/early 80s, filling concert halls throughout North America year after year, the buzz being big every time they came to town. Their first four records will forever be held in high esteem by metalheads around the world ... and justifiably so. So, here The Mighty Decibel puts together its fave tracks from those first four releases for a blistering 40 minute listening session. Light it up!! Side One Van Halen (1978) (0:00) Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (3:46) Atomic Punk (6:45) On Fire II (1979) (9:41) Somebody Get Me A Doctor (12:33) Light Up the Sky (15:43) Bottom's Up! Side 2 Women and Children First (1980) (18:50) Everybody Wants Some! (23:57) Loss of Control (26:35) In A Simple Rhyme Fair Warning (1981) (31:12) Mean Street (36:08) Sinner's Swing! (38:32) Unchained

This episode we focus solely on extreme metal releases issued in October and November 2024. Hear the best thrash, death and black metal releases issued over the past two months. Let the mayhem begin! (0:00) "Visceral Hatred" MESSE NOIRE - Ceremonial Death (2) Facebook (4:49) "Nerdrage" REFLEXOR - Frozen Imbeciles Frozen Imbeciles | Reflexor (7:23) "Faceless Death" BASTARD PRIEST - single Faceless Death | Bastard Priest | D-takt & Råpunk (10:36) "Tod. Mort. Death." GORGON - For Those Who Stay For Those Who Stay | GORGON | Osmose Productions (13:24) "Lethal Revenge" OBNOXIOUS YOUTH - Burning Savage Burning Savage | Obnoxious Youth (15:02) "Blood Vultures" JEWEL THRONE - Blood Vultures Blood Vultures | Jewel Throne (20:48) "Envy For the Lifeless" BRUKA - Death's Promise Death's Promise | BRÜKA | Brüka (22:00) "Writhe In Pain" DESTRUKTOR - Indomitable Indomitable | DESTRUKTOR (25:26) "War" BREAKDOWN - Divide and Konquer Facebook

1996 - a strange year in metal, as extreme metal took a back seat to other forms of heavy for the first time in the 90s. Lots of hard rock, trad metal, doom, and punk represented instead, making for an eclectic list this listening session. Don't resist the power!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Against Windows": AMORPHIS - Elegy (4:03) "10 In 2010": BAD RELIGION - The Grey Race (6:22) "Urko's Conquest": CATHEDRAL - Supernatural Birth Machine (10:23) "Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover": DEEP PURPLE - Purpendicular (15:03) "The Power": MANOWAR - Louder Than Hell (19:12) "Gettin' Pretty Good At Barely Gettin' By": THE FOUR HORSEMEN - Gettin' Pretty Good At Barely Gettin' By Side 2 (23:16) "Disintegration/Free Money": SLAYER - Undisputed Attitude (24:57) "Wiseblood": COC - Wiseblood (27:56) "Down From The Mountain": MOLLY HATCHET - Devil's Canyon (32:35) "My Mommies Pot": TEENAGE HEAD - Head Disorder (34:50) "Roots Bloody Roots": SEPULTURA - Roots (38:21) "Don't": SACRED REICH - Heal

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 October and November 2024 releases. (00:00) "Cut Down By the Chainsaw" STEEL INFERNO - Rush of Power Rush Of Power | Steel Inferno (03:49) "Sunraven" GRAND MAGUS - Sunraven Sunraven | Grand Magus (7:39) "Prime Time Terror" NITROGODS - Valley of the Gods Nitrogods — Official Home (11:21) "Riders of the Storm" WAR DOGS - Only the Stars Left Only The Stars Are Left | War Dogs (17:23) "It All Comes Down Hard" 100 WATT VIPERS - Backed By Blood Backed By Blood | 100 Watt Vipers (20:53) "Ruler of the Waves" BLADES OF STEEL - single Ruler Of The Waves | Blades Of Steel (24:59) "Mother Anarchy" THE 351's - No Replacement For Displacement No Replacement For Displacement (PILS-54) | The 351's | Pils Records / Pandemix Records (27:27) "Under the Skin" CHALLENGER - Force of Nature Force of Nature | Challenger | Dying Victims Productions (31:23) "Spears and Blades" BRIDGE CITY SINNERS - In the Age of Doubt In the Age of Doubt | Bridge City Sinners Horns up!

The beginning of the 2000's looked pretty bleak for legendary British trad metal unit Judas Priest with the issuance of the much maligned Demolition in 2001. However, the return of Halford to the mic proved the perfect tonic as the band continues to issue relevant metal records ever since into this current year. (Ahem - let's turn a blind eye to the Nostrodamus hiccup, shall we!) Rejoice all ye metalheads as we listen to the best material of the mighty Priest in the 2Ks. Rising from the ruins into the halls of valhalla ... Side One Demolition (2001) (0:00) Lost and Found Angel of Retribution (2005) (4:56) Deal With the Devil (8:50) Judas Rising Nostrodamus (2008) Redeemer of Souls (2014) (12:53) Halls of Valhalla Side 2 Firepower (2018) (18:54) Firepower (22:21) Children of the Sun (26:18) Rising From the Ruins Invincible Shield (2024) (31:37) Invincible Shield (37:56) As God Is My Witness (42:30) The Serpent and the King

It's time to revel in the new hardcore punk, d-beat, metal punk and grindcore releases issued from October and November 2024. Grind 'til death!! (0:00) "Neon Bastard" + "Ragged Trousers" REVIVAL - Revival Revival | Revival (3:45) "Sarin Attack" + "Cop Corpse" ERASER - Harmony Dies Harmony Dies | Eraser (6:01) "Zaragoza fecal" + "Facta Non Verba" VENGANZA - Damnatio Memoriae Damnatio Memoriae | Venganza | venganzapunk (10:33) "Wankers" SUFFOCATING MADNESS - Unrelnting Forced Psychosis Suffocating Madness – Unrelenting Forced Psychosis | Suffocating Madness | Toxic State Records (13:14) "Massykos" + "Moder Jord" MOB 47 - Tills Du Dor Tills Du Dör | MOB 47 (15:55) "100 Degrees Celsius" + "Ask Me Again" FRENZEE - What's Wrong With Me What's Wrong With Me | FRENZEE (18:20) "F.A.S." BIG BOSS - Skinhead Revenge LSC022 - Big Boss - Skinhead Revenge | LSC Records (21:21) "Tu e il tuo ego" + "Q.V.A." INFERNO PERSONALE - La scelta e tua La scelta é tua | Inferno Personale (24:34) "Depende de Vosl" + "Nada Se Puede Comparar" DISTANTE - Nada Se Puede Comparar Nada Se Puede Comparar | DISTANTE (28:06) "You'll Always Lose" + "Death By Bureaucracy" NEGATIVE PATH - Split w/MEXOFF Split LP with MEXOFF | Negative Path (30:12) "Delirium" + "Cost To Live" S.O.H. - Cost To Live S.O.H. - Cost To Live | No Norms Records (35:25) "Killing Machine" + "Blinded Aggression" + "Times Up" CORRUPT FAITH - Not My War Not My War | Corrupt Faith

Join The Mighty Decibel as we name our fave albums of October 2024 across four categorie extreme metal, stoner doom, hardcore punk and hard'n'heavy. Metal 'til death!!!

Okay - I'll admit, I've never been a big Y&T fan ... especially during the mid to late 80's MTV era. However, between 1981 and 1983 the band issued three good trad metal/hard rock albums with the best material easily filling a 40 minute playlist. Press play and let 'em knock you out!!! Side One Earthshaker (1981) (0:00) Hungry For Rock (3:42) Hurricane (7:05) Knock You Out Black Tiger (1982) (10:02) From the Moon / Open Fire (14:52) Forever Side 2 (20:36) Black Tiger Mean Streak (1983) (24:44) Mean Streak (28:48) Midnight in Tokyo (34:26) Hang 'Em High

It's Monday so it's time for another "New Release Monday" episode. This episode we spotlight new and upcoming releases from October and November 2024 in stoner metal, along with a smattering of death doom, psych and sludge, of course. We're all doomed! (0:00) "Dark Omens" DOOMRAISER - Cold Grave Marble Cold Grave Marble | Doomraiser (5:10) "Gimme Danger (On My Stereo)" CORTEZ - Theives and Charlatans Thieves And Charlatans | Cortez (10:58) "Inquisitor" ODA - Bloodstained Bloodstained |

Time to shine the spotlight on another underappreciated band, this time we focus on German thrash outfit Vendetta! Specifically, this playlist picks the best tracks from the band's first two releases which you will hear are chock full of high octane thrash metal. Adhere to the metal law!!! Side One Go And Live ... Stay And Die (1987) (0:00) Revolution Command (1:14) Drugs and Corruption (9:15) On The Road (14:39) Go and Live ... Stay and Die Side 2 Brain Damage (1988) (19:32) War (25:23) Conversation (29:10) Never Die (31:28) Dominance of Violence (34:57) Metal Law

This episode we focus solely on extreme metal releases issued in September and October 2024. Hear the best thrash, death and black metal releases issued over the past two months. Let the mayhem begin! (0:00) "Thrash Compactor" HOLLOW FLAG - Beware of Moshing (5) Facebook (2:13) "Force Fed" RIPPED TO SHREDS - Sanshi Sanshi | Ripped to Shreds (5:14) "Ruins" ABGLANZ - Dawn of Eternal Existence Dawn Of Eternal Existence | Abglanz (10:31) "Carnage Ritual" TEMPLE OF DREAD - God of the Godless God of the Godless | Temple Of Dread (15:04) "Dead Behind Bars" GHETTO GHOULS - Vigilante Crusaders Vigilante Crusaders | Ghetto Ghouls (17:41) "Anti-Imperial Black Metal" ISELDER - Gogoniant Gogoniant | Iselder | Marwolaeth Records (20:48) "March of the Grotesque" INFERN - Turn of the Tide Turn Of The Tide | Infern (24:12) "Wake Up Screaming" PRIVATE HELL - Wake Up Screaming Wake Up Screaming | Private Hell (25:56) "Martyr Complex" BLASPHEMOUS - To Lay Siege and Conquer To Lay Siege and Conquer | Blasphemous

Onward we move into the mid-90s as we continue our The Year In Heavy playlist series. And what a great year for metal 1995 was in retrospect when you take a listen to this set of tracks from some absolutely timeless albums from that year. Yep, there's a ton of extreme metal (as you'd suspect), but there's also some doom, rock'n'roll, hard rock and even punk rock for you to savour. Go ahead, press play ... you'll be pushed to the limit!!! Side 1 (0:00) "Blinded By Fear": AT THE GATES - Slaughter of The Soul (3:12) "Vampire Sun": CATHEDRAL - Carnival Bizarre (7:19) "Progressive Proletarians": KREATOR - Cause For Conflict (10:44) "The Crusher": RAMONES - Adios Amigos (13:02) "Hostage To Heaven": GRIP INC. - Power Of Inner Strength (17:00) "Long Shadows Fall": TROUBLE - Plastic Green Head (19:43) "When Satan Rules The World": DEICIDE - Once Upon The Cross Side 2 (22:34) "Born With A Tail": SUPERSUCKERS - The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers (25:49) "Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms": IMMORTAL - Battles of the North (28:37) "Pushed To The Limit": UFO - Walk On Water (32:25) "Out of the Sun": MOTORHEAD - Sacrifice (36:05) "Kiss My Ass": TED NUGENT - Spirit of the Wild (39:31) "How I Won The War": COMECON - Fable Frolics (42:47) "On Frozen Fields": DISMEMBER - Massive Killing Capacity (45:22) "An Act of Darkness": VADER - De Profundis

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 September and October 2024 releases. Horns up! (00:00) "Won't Do It Again" AMETHYST - Throw Down the Gauntlet Facebook (04:39) "The Mermaid Tavern" THEIGNS & THRALLS - The Keep & the Spire Facebook (8:14) "Tower 42" MECHANIC TYRANTS - St. Diemen Riots St. Diemen Riots | Mechanic Tyrants (bandcamp.com) (12:18) "Sunny Side of Heaven" PHIL MOGG - Mogg's Motel Mogg's Motel | Phil Mogg | UFO (bandcamp.com) (16:33) "Demolition Boy" GLORIOUS BANKROBBERS - Rock'N'Roll Church .... ¤¤¤¤ Official Glorious Bankrobbers homepage ¤¤¤¤ .... (19:35) "Speed Metal Samurai" BUTCHER - On Fowl of Tyrant Wing On Fowl Of Tyrant Wing | BÜTCHER | Osmose Productions (bandcamp.com) (24:40) "Danger Rules" THE MOTHERCROW - Foraneo Foráneo | The Mothercrow (bandcamp.com) (28:33) "Circle Gets the Square" + "Heaps" CATHEDRAL CEILINGS - La La La ... Whatever La La La...Whatever | Cathedral Ceilings | Dromedary Records (bandcamp.com) (31:33) "Lavish Desecration" BEWITCHER - Spell Shock Spell Shock (24-bit HD audio) | Bewitcher (bandcamp.com)