the decibel hall of fame

We bend (but don’t break) our Hall of Fame rules to induct the landmark Mob Rules LP from the Dio-fronted Black Sabbath.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the December issue of Decibel, featuring our 10th anniversary Decibel Flexi Series entry from Venomous Concept.

The Darkness‘s 2003 classic, Permission to Land, is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the February issue of Decibel, featuring a flexi disc single of an exclusive new song from death metal crushers Outer Heaven, available now. Don’t blow it.

Choosing Death, Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies Vol 1, Swedish Death Metal, Extremity Retained and all Decibel Tour and Decibel Metal & Beer Fest t-shirts are 20% off from now until Sunday at Midnight EST!

British doom legends Paradise Lost return to the Decibel Hall of Fame for the first time in 13 years.

For our 150th Decibel Hall of Fame induction, we honor Soundgarden’s noisiest, heaviest release. 

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

Dimmu Borgir’s mainstream metal breakthrough crashes the Decibel Hall of Fame this month.

Finnish death metal heroes Demilich are the exclusive “bonus track” Hall of Fame in the Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology Vol. II book.

Saxon‘s NWOBHM building block Wheels of Steel enters Decibel’s Hall of Fame.

Only death, Tom G. Warrior, Hellhammer and the Decibel Hall of Fame are real! 

Decibel Books limited edition hardcover pressings are selling fast. If you want Choosing Death, Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies or The Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology: Volume II, bust a move.

The definitive stories of 25 of the greatest metal albums ever recorded now all in one anthology. 

Decibel has complied 25 of our best Hall of Fame pieces into a brand new hardcover, limited-edition, hand-numbered anthology, exclusively available here.

Throughout their career, the visual artists of Neurosis have been as important to the band as the musicians. Read their commentary in this feature.

We haven’t got pictures of naked ladies lying on their beds, but we do a have a W.A.S.P. Hall of Fame induction that was YEARS in the making, 

Mastodon‘s whale of sophomore LP gets the dB HOF treatment. 

Don’t sleep on these Canadian HOFers, who have already gotten much-deserved Flexi Series love!

Longtime staffer Nick Green dubbed 8-Way Santa “the White Album of grunge … easily the most underrated record Sub Pop ever put out.” 

You’ll have no choice but to plop down next to ye olde external A/C unit and scour Decibel all summer. Luckily, we have a shitload of killer exclusive content on the horizon, specifically for the Hall of Fame and Flexi Series.