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.

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

Nuclear Assault

Game Over

dB HoF No. 153

Label: Under One Flag

Release date: October 1986

Tank

Filth Hounds of Hades

dB HoF No. 152

Label: Kamaflage

Release date: March 1982

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