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.

Mare

Mare

dB HoF No. 183

Label: Hydra Head

Release date: October 5, 2004

Behemoth

Demigod

dB HoF No. 182

Label: Regain/Olympic Recordings

Release date: October 25, 2004

Madball

Set It Off

dB HoF No. 181

Label: Roadrunner

Release date: July 26, 1994

Sacrilege

Behind the Realms of Madness

dB HoF No. 180

Label: Pusmort

Release date: July 19, 1985

Armored Saint

Symbol of Salvation

dB HoF No. 179

Label: Metal Blade

Release date: May 14, 1991

Tormentor

Anno Domini

dB HoF No. 178

Label: Self-released

Release date: 1989

The Darkness

Permission to Land

dB HoF No. 177

Label: Atlantic

Release date: July 7, 2003

Anthrax

Fistful of Metal

dB HoF No. 176

Label: Megaforce

Release date: January 1984

Avail

Over the James

dB HoF No. 175

Label: Lookout!

Release date: April 7, 1998

Varathron

His Majesty at the Swamp

dB HoF No. 174

Label: Cyber Music

Release date: August 1993

The Accüsed

More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral!

dB HoF No. 173

Label: Combat

Release date: May 5, 1987

Michael Schenker Group

Assault Attack

dB HoF No. 172

Label: Chrysalis

Release date: October 1982

Emperor/Enslaved

Emperor/Hordanes Land

dB HoF No. 171

Label: Candlelight

Release date: June 1993

Carcass

Symphonies of Sickness

dB HoF No. 170

Label: Earache

Release date: November 4, 1989

Watain

Casus Luciferi

dB HoF No. 169

Label: Drakkar Productions

Release date: November 2003

Asphyx

The Rack

dB HoF No. 168

Label: Century Media

Release date: April 13, 1991

Testament

The New Order

dB HoF No. 167

Label: Megaforce / Atlantic

Release date: May 5, 1988

Ripping Corpse

Dreaming with the Dead

dB HoF No. 166

Label: Kraze

Release date: June 1, 1991

Budgie

Never Turn Your Back on a Friend

dB HoF No. 165

Label: MCA

Release date: June 1973

Gojira

From Mars to Sirius

dB HoF No. 164

Label: Listenable

Release date: September 27, 2005

Exhorder

Slaughter in the Vatican

dB HoF No. 163

Label: R/C

Release date: October 23, 1990

Judas Priest

Stained Class

dB HoF No. 162

Label: CBS

Release date: February 10, 1978

Grief

Come to Grief

dB HoF No. 161

Label: Century Media

Release date: November 1, 1994

Enslaved

Below the Lights

dB HoF No. 160

Label: Osmose

Release date: April 14, 2003

Paradise Lost

Icon

dB HoF No. 159

Label: Music for Nations

Release date: September 23, 1993

Kreator

Pleasure to Kill

dB HoF No. 158

Label: Noise

Release date: November 1, 1986

Monster Magnet

Spine of God

dB HoF No. 157

Label: Caroline

Release date: 1992

Dream Death

Journey Into Mystery

dB HoF No. 156

Label: New Renaissance

Release date: October 16, 1987

Focus

Moving Waves

dB HoF No. 155

Label: Imperial

Release date: October 1971

Prong

Beg to Differ

dB HoF No. 154

Label: Epic

Release date: March 1990

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