Hall of Fame

Gorement – The Ending Quest

April 25, 2025

Gorement’s cult classic The Ending Quest enters the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Unleashed – Where No Life Dwells

April 18, 2025

Dropping Thor’s Hammer The Making of Unleashed’s Where No Life Dwells In the early ’90s, the general death metal assumption was that bands from Sweden, particularly Stockholm and its suburbs, were carbon copies of Nihilist. And then Entombed. And then Dismember. Certainly, the second and third generation of Swedes that hell-spawned bands from the subterranean…

Darkest Hour – Undoing Ruin

February 20, 2025

We gear up for Darkest Hour‘s 20th anniversary of their melodeath landmark, Undoing Ruin, with a well-deserved Hall of Fame induction.

Paradise Lost – Draconian Times

February 3, 2025

We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Paradise Lost‘s landmark Draconian Times with a Hall of Fame induction.

Fu Manchu – The Action Is Go

January 6, 2025

Congrats to Fu Manchu for entering into the Decibel Hall of Fame. Keep on truckin’ and have a nice day.

Krallice – Krallice

November 20, 2024

Krallice‘s self-titled debut reset the course for USBM. Now it enters the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Crowbar – Crowbar

October 31, 2024

Crowbar‘s 1993 self-titled sludge metal masterpiece is granted a Hall of Fame induction.

Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin

October 8, 2024

Arch Enemy’s 2001 melodeath breakthrough Wages of Sin is our latest HOF inductee.

Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

September 11, 2024

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, the epic debut from Candlemass, gets its long overdue Hall of Fame induction.

Deathevokation – The Chalice of Ages

July 30, 2024

We raise a toast to Deathevokation‘s one-and-done classic, The Chalice of Ages.

Khanate – Khanate

July 3, 2024

Khanate’s unconventional and glacial approach to doom metal culminates in a Hall of Fame induction.

The Obsessed – Lunar Womb

June 4, 2024

The Obsessed’s “biker doom” classic Lunar Womb is welcomed into our hallowed Hall.

Exhumed – Gore Metal

April 24, 2024

In which we discuss the matter of splatter of Exhumed‘s Hall of Fame induction for Gore Metal.

Brujeria – Matando Güeros

April 8, 2024

Nothing seems right in cartels as Brujeria enters the Decibel Hall of Fame

Ludicra – The Tenant

February 28, 2024

The struggle was real for Ludicra on the now Hall of Fame-inducted The Tenant.

Breadwinner – The Burner

January 31, 2024

Instrumental Richmond math rock legends Breadwinner earn a Hall of Fame induction with The Burner.
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Bulldozer – The Day of Wrath

January 5, 2024

Primal Italian first-wave black metallers Bulldozer plough their way into our hallowed Hall.

Cathedral – The Ethereal Mirror

January 5, 2024

We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cathedral‘s major label debut with a Hall of Fame re-induction.

Deafheaven – Sunbather

August 28, 2023

Deafheaven‘s blackgaze landmark, Sunbather, gets a Hall of Fame induction on its tenth anniversary.

Opeth “Still Life”

July 25, 2023

Opeth reveal how their groundbreaking fourth LP, Still Life, was nearly their last in this month’s Decibel Hall of Fame induction.

Anvil – Metal on Metal

June 26, 2023

Every aspect of it—from the band’s name to the cover image to the songs herein—screams metal, leaving little doubt that Anvil’s second album clearly belongs in our Hall of Fame.

Thorr’s Hammer – Dommedagsnatt

May 24, 2023

Thorr’s Hammer‘s extreme doom benchmark Dommedagsnatt is this month’s Decibel Hall of Fame inductee.

Fleurety – “Min tid skal komme”

April 24, 2023

Norwegian black metal’s “weirdification” delivers a genre landmark with Fleurety‘s debut LP, Min tid skal komme.

Macabre – ‘Sinister Slaughter’

March 28, 2023

Midwest murder metal mavericks Macabre paint portraits of serial killers on 1993’s Sinister Slaughter.

At the Gates – Terminal Spirit Disease

March 1, 2023

Swedish melodic death metal legends At the Gates walk through the hallowed gates of our Hall of Fame for the third time via Terminal Spirit Disease.

The Crown – Deathrace King

February 9, 2023

The Crown‘s 2000 death/thrash/speed classic is finally inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame

Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me

January 13, 2023

Dinosaur Jr.‘s freaky, noisy 1987 sophomore slugger You’re Living All Over Me gets its Hall of Fame induction.

Hammers of Misfortune – The Locust Years

December 14, 2022

Hammers of Misfortune enters the Decibel Hall of Fame via The Locust Years.