Hall of Fame

Examine the making of Carcass‘ classic sophomore LP, Symphonies of Sickness.

Ranking the songs on Testament‘s Hall of Fame-inducted album The New Order from worst to best.

Carcass earn their third Hall of Fame induction.

Watain‘s seminal album, Casus Luciferi is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Watain‘s Casus Luciferi takes its place in the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Ranking the songs on Carcass‘ Hall of Fame-inducted 1993 masterwork Heartwork from worst to best.

Asphyx take their place in the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Ranking the songs on Testament‘s Hall of Fame-inducted classic debut, The Legacy, from worst to best. Thrashing ourselves into the triangle! The Devil’s Triangle!

Welcome Testament‘s The New Order to the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Ripping Corpse are inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Budgie‘s Never Turn Your Back on a Friend is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Revisiting and rating the songs on Prong‘s 1990 Beg to Differ album from worst to best.

Ranking the songs on Paradise Lost‘s 1993 epic Icon from worst to best, to honor its recent induction to our Hall of Fame.

Queensrÿche’s Operation: Mindcrime turns 30 today. Read an exclusive excerpt from its Hall of Fame induction.

Judas Priest‘s Stained Class takes its place in the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Judas Priest return to the cover of Decibel with an decade-in-the-making Hall of Fame story of their Stained Class album.

Sludge/doom trailblazers Grief are inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Grief‘s Come to Grief joins the Decibel Hall of Fame.

While the trio of albums Blodhemn, Mardraum: Beyond the Within and Monumension afforded Enslaved a very wide and superbly deep palette from which to draw, sculpt and splatter their blend of black, Viking and progressive metal, something wasn’t quite right. The feelings and intentions of the aforementioned albums were pure, but the Norwegians had corrupted…

Icon is inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Kreator‘s Pleasure to Kill is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Spine of God is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Dream Death are inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

According to BBC Radio DJ Bob Harris, demand was so great for Focus LPs by 1972 that the band’s British label, Polydor, simultaneously ran vinyl at all five of its record plants around the clock. The Dutch quartet’s second full-length album, Moving Waves—alternately titled Focus II—is one of the least-probable success stories of the early…

The making of Prong‘s Beg to Differ.

The making of Nuclear Assault’s ‘Game Over.’

We revisited and ranked the songs on Accept’s classic, Hall of Fame-inducted, album Restless and Wild.

Read about the making of Crowbar‘s Odd Fellows Rest in the latest issue of Decibel. 

Emperor‘s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is a black metal classic, further cemented by its induction into Decibel‘s Hall of Fame. Now you can own the 20th anniversary Hall of Fame edition album on vinyl. 

Today is the Day‘s Temple of the Morning Star is the latest induction to Decibel‘s Hall of Fame series.