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Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces

by Albert Mudrian

An oral-history map of extreme metal albums

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An oral-history map of extreme metal albums

Edited by Decibel’s Albert Mudrian, this collection expands the magazine’s “Hall of Fame” features into album-by-album accounts of extreme metal recordings. The entries draw on interviews with participating band members to document how landmark releases came together, spanning foundational heavy metal, thrash, grindcore, death metal, doom, black metal, stoner metal, and metalcore. Albums by Black Sabbath, Slayer, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Carcass, Darkthrone, Opeth, Emperor, and Converge place different scenes and eras in conversation. The book’s organizing principle is the making of individual records, giving its music history a practical, artist-centered structure.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Extreme metal listeners interested in album histories
  • Fans of Decibel magazine’s “Hall of Fame” features
  • Music readers seeking band-member interview material

Themes

Extreme metal historyAlbum production and recordingBand perspectivesMetal subgenres and scenes

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Book overview

Decibel magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around.

Precious Metal gathers pieces from Decibel's most popular feature, the monthly "Hall of Fame" which documents the making of landmark metal albums via candid, hilarious, and fascinating interviews with every participating band member.

Decibel's editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian, has selected and expanded the best of these features, creating a definitive collection of stories behind the greatest extreme metal albums of all time.

Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell * Diamond Head's Lightning to the Nations * Slayer's Reign in Blood * Napalm Death's Scum * Repulsion's Horrifed * Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness * Obituary's Cause of Death * Entombed's Left Hand Path * Paradise Lost's Gothic * Carcass' Necroticism- Descanting the Insalubrious * Cannibal Corpse's Tomb of the Mutilated * Eyehategod's Take as Needed for Pain * Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger * Kyuss's Welcome to Sky Valley * Meshuggah's Destroy Erase Improve * Monster Magnet's Dopes to Infinity * At the Gates' Slaughter of the Soul * Opeth's Orchid * Down's NOLA * Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse * Sleep's Jerusalem * The Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculating Infinity * Botch's We Are the Romans * Converge's Jane Doe

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