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.

Scorpions

In Trance

dB HoF No. 112

Label: RCA

Release date: September 1975 (Europe)

Failure

Fantastic Planet

dB HoF No. 111

Label: Slash/Warner Bros.

Release date: August 13, 1996

Skepticism

Stormcrowfleet

dB HoF No. 110

Label: Red Stream, Inc.

Release date: 1995

Agnostic Front

Cause for Alarm

dB HoF No. 109

Label: Combat Core

Release date: May 1986

Opeth

Blackwater Park

dB HoF No. 108

Label: Music for Nations

Release date: March 2001

Integrity

Systems Overload

dB HoF No. 107

Label: Victory

Release date: 1995

Venom

Black Metal

dB HoF No. 106

Label: Neat

Release date: November 1982

Bad Religion

Suffer

dB HoF No. 105

Label: Epitaph

Release date: 1988

High on Fire

Surrounded by Thieves

dB HoF No. 104

Label: Relapse

Release date: 2002

Solitude Aeturnus

Beyond the Crimson Horizon

dB HoF No. 103

Label: Roadrunner

Release date: 1992

Pig Destroyer

Prowler in the Yard

dB HoF No. 102

Label: Relapse

Release date: 2001

Floor

Floor

dB HoF No. 101

Label: No Idea

Release date: 2002

Carcass

Heartwork

dB HoF No. 100

Label: Columbia/Earache

Release date: 1993

Pestilence

Consuming Impulse

dB HoF No. 99

Label: Roadrunner/RC

Release date: 1989

Rigor Mortis

Rigor Mortis

dB HoF No. 098

Label: Capitol

Release date: 1988

Slayer

South of Heaven

dB HoF No. 097

Label: Def Jam

Release date: 1988

Sepultura

Beneath the Remains

dB HoF No. 096

Label: Roadrunner

Release date: 1989

Sarcófago

I.N.R.I.

dB HoF No. 095

Label: Cogumelo

Release date: 1987

Killswitch Engage

Alive or Just Breathing

dB HoF No. 094

Label: Roadrunner

Release date: 2002

Agalloch

The Mantle

dB HoF No. 093

Label: The End

Release date: 2002

Sick of It All

Scratch the Surface

dB HoF No. 92

Label: Eastwest

Release date: 1994

Isis

Oceanic

dB HoF No. 91

Label: Ipecac

Release date: 2002

Nuclear Death

Bride of Insect

dB HoF No. 90

Label: Wild Rags

Release date: 1990

Dying Fetus

Destroy the Opposition

dB HoF No. 89

Label: Relapse

Release date: 2000

Unsane

Scattered, Smothered & Covered

dB HoF No. 88

Label: Amphetamine Reptile

Release date: 1995

Megadeth

Rust In Peace

dB HoF No. 87

Label: Capitol Records

Release date: 1990

Deceased

Fearless Undead Machines

dB HoF No. 86

Label: Relapse

Release date: 1997

Overkill

The Years of Decay

dB HoF No. 85

Label: Megaforce

Release date: 1989

King Diamond

Abigail

dB HoF No. 84

Label: Roadrunner

Release date: 1987

Cryptopsy

None So Vile

dB HoF No. 83

Label: Wrong Again

Release date: 1996