Hall of Fame

The Decibel Hall of Fame provides the definitive stories behind the making of extreme music’s most important albums. Each month the seven-page stories (upwards of 5,000 words) include interviews with every musician who performed on the inducted record. One hundred of them are anthologized over four hardcover, limited edtion Decibel Hall of Fame books available here.

Lethargy

It’s Hard to Write With a Little Hand

dB HoF No. 255

Label: Dirty Girl/Endless

Release date: September 1996

Biohazard

Urban Discipline

dB HoF No. 254

Label: Roadrunner

Release date: November 10, 1992

Pallbearer

Sorrow and Extinction

dB HoF No. 253

Label: Profound Lore

Release date: February 21, 2012

Panopticon

Autumn Eternal

dB HoF No. 252

Label: Bindrune Recordings

Release date: October 16, 2015

Excel

Split Image

dB HoF No. 251

Label: Suicidal Records

Release date: July 1987

Psychotic Waltz

A Social Grace

dB HoF No. 250

Label: Rising Sun Productions

Release date: November 26, 1990

Witchcraft

Witchcraft

dB HoF No. 249

Label: Rise Above

Release date: 2004

Carcass

Surgical Steel

dB HoF No. 248

Label: Nuclear Blast

Release date: September 13, 2013

The Third and the Mortal

Tears Laid in Earth

dB HoF No. 247

Label: Voices of Wonder

Release date: October 21, 1994

Gorement

The Ending Quest

dB HoF No. 246

Label: Crypta

Release date: May 15, 1994

Unleashed

Where No Life Dwells

dB HoF No. 245

Label: Century Media

Release date: May 17, 1991

Darkest Hour

Undoing Ruin

dB HoF No. 244

Label: Victory Records

Release date: June 28, 2005

Paradise Lost

Draconian Times

dB HoF No. 243

Label: Music for Nations

Release date: June 12, 1995

Fu Manchu

The Action is Go

dB HoF No. 242

Label: Mammoth

Release date: October 7, 1997

Krallice

Krallice

dB HoF No. 241

Label: Profound Lore

Release date: July 11, 2008

Crowbar

Crowbar

dB HoF No. 240

Label: Pavement Music

Release date: October 4, 1993

Arch Enemy

Wages of Sin

dB HoF No. 239

Label: Toy’s Factory

Release date: April 25, 2001

Candlemass

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

dB HoF No. 238

Label: Black Dragon

Release date: June 10, 1986

Deathevokation

The Chalice of Ages

dB HoF No. 237

Label: Xtreem Music

Release date: February 2007

Khanate

Khanate

dB HoF No. 236

Label: Southern Lord

Release date: October 30, 2001

The Obsessed

Lunar Womb

dB HoF No. 235

Label: Hellhound

Release date: 1991

Exhumed

Gore Metal

dB HoF No. 234

Label: Relapse

Release date: November 23, 1998

Brujeria

Matando Güeros

dB HoF No. 233

Label: Roadrunner

Release date: July 6, 1993

Ludicra

The Tenant

dB HoF No. 232

Label: Profound Lore

Release date: March 3, 2010

Breadwinner

The Burner

dB HoF No. 231

Label: Merge

Release date: March 14, 1994

Bulldozer

The Day of Wrath

dB HoF No. 230

Label: Roadrunner

Release date: March 13, 1985

Cathedral

The Ethereal Mirror

dB HoF No. 229

Label: Columbia

Release date: May 24, 1993

Blind Guardian

Imaginations From the Other Side

dB HoF No. 228

Label: Virgin

Release date: April 5, 1995

Insect Warfare

World Extermination

dB HoF No. 227

Label: 625 Thrashcore

Release date: October 2007

Deafheaven

Sunbather

dB HoF No. 226

Label: Deathwish Inc.

Release date: June 11, 2013

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