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.

Celtic Frost

To Mega Therion

dB HoF No. 123

Label: Noise Records

Release date: October 27th, 1985

Bang

Bang

dB HoF No. 122

Label: Capitol

Release date: 1971

Living Colour

Vivid

dB HoF No. 121

Label: Epic

Release date: 1988

Tiamat

Wildhoney

dB HoF No. 120

Label: Century Media

Release date: 1994

Spazz

La Revancha

dB HoF No. 119

Label: Sound Pollution

Release date: August 5, 1997

Samael

Worship Him

dB HoF No. 118

Label: Osmose Production

Release date: 1991

L7

Bricks Are Heavy

dB HoF No. 117

Label: Slash/Reprise

Release date: April 14, 1992

At the Gates

The Red in the Sky Is Ours

dB HoF No. 116

Label: Deaf

Release date: July 27, 1992

Corrosion of Conformity

Blind

dB HoF No. 115

Label: Relativity

Release date: November 5, 1991

Melvins

Stoner Witch

dB HoF No. 114

Label: Atlantic

Release date: October 18, 1995

Destruction

Infernal Overkill

dB HoF No. 113

Label: Steamhammer/Metal Blade

Release date: May 24, 1985

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