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

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Albert Mudrian
Hachette Books, Jul 14, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 365 pages

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
 

 

Contents

Ø A RARE
15
Ø PROCREATION OF THE WICKED
31
Ø WHOLL STOP THE REIGN?
48
Ø SLAVES TO THE GRIND
56
Ø SCARED TO DEATH
73
Ø IMMORTAL RIGHTS
85
Ø MEMORIES REMAIN
96
Ø LEFT HAND LEGACY
109
A DESERT ODYSSEY
196
Ø ALTERING THE FUTURE
213
Ø MASTERBURNERTHEINFINITEBADNESS
223
Ø ATTHEGATES OFIMMORTALITY
237
19Ø FLOWER POWER
245
20Ø PILLAR OF ETERNITY
267
METAL MAYHEMMURDER
280
22Ø HIGH TIMES
292

Ø AN ETERNAL CLASSIC
120
11Ø ROTTEN TO THE GORE
130
Ø THECRYPTIC STENCH
142
13Ø HAZARDOUS PRESCRIPTION
165
14Ø HUNGER STRIKES
179
23Ø 100 CLASSIC
304
24Ø FALLEN EMPIRE
318
Ø WHOS THAT GIRL?
331
Photo Credits
349
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About the author (2009)

Albert Mudrain is the editor-in-chief of Decibel and the author of the cult classic Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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