Traditional metal fans rejoice! Old school Accept and Judas Priest lovers sit up and take note! I present Riot City and their May 2019 release Burn the Night. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, Canada these rippers have been around since about 2011. With a DEMO (Livin’ Fast in 2014) behind it, Burn the Night is a […]
CGCM Podcast EP#4 – Time to hop aboard the CGCM hot air balloon and join The Meister and Wallygator as they travel the world in search of great hard rock and heavy metal! First stop, Canada! Figured we might as well start in our home country. The Great White North has always been a solid […]
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I remember a few years back Rich “The Meister” Dillon had conducted a Decibel Geek interview with a band called Killer Bee. As is sometimes the case, stuff gets lost in the shuffle. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago and it turns out these Bee‘s are set to infest again in 2016. Not only […]
From the opening drum fills of “Space Race”, the lead track on their sophomore effort Winter’s Doom, Sanktuary had its’ hooks into this listener. A blistering headbanger from the opening skin bashing to the closing guitar note, Winter’s Doom crashes along for near 33 minutes despite only being seven tracks in length. Sanktuary were a new band […]
It’s amazing in this day and age of internet highways creating a digital sea of music availability that one can still discover new bands from even the tiniest of cities. For all the bad (the well documented free/stealing/sharing of the artists creations) there’s a lot of good as well. For instance, if it was not […]
Anticipation. A dangerous thing in certain circumstances. I’m sure that most of us have experienced anticipation at one time or another. Just as I’m sure that we have fallen victim to anticipation when it doesn’t live up to the hype that you’ve created in your own mind. I remember as a kid wanting the Star […]
***A photo gallery by Brian Ronald appears at the end of this review*** The world’s only all-female Iron Maiden tribute band The Iron Maidens has made a name for themselves around the world with the chops and the looks that kill. Having seen them on MORC 2014 (Monsters of Rock Cruise), I knew what the […]
Lee Aaron – @ Barney’s in Whitby, Ontario – photo by Shawn Irwin There was some dividing and conquering of the Canadian Decibel Geek team for this trio of Lee Aaron shows in the southern Ontario area. Photographer Brian Ronald attended the sold out London, Ontario show on Friday December 5th, 2014 and had rave […]
As my friend and esteemed colleague here at Decibel Geek, Wallygator, has featured in his “Hoser Heavy Metal” articles, there are a lot of great musicians, bands, and albums that have been exported from our Canadian homeland, The Great White North. 1987 in Canada saw the introduction of the one dollar coin, commonly referred to […]
