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

By Albert Mudrian

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030681806X
• ISBN13: 9780306818066
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Well worth it

An interesting look into the making of many albums few would deem as classic (ie. these records are ignored by the mainstream and won't be in any coffee table books by Rolling Stone or Spin). Well written and providing ample space for each narrative. The preface clearly outline's Decibel's criteria. If you like me think Reign in Blood, Jane Doe and Lightning to the Nations are classics you will enjoy this book.

Excellent Interviews

"Precious Metal" is comprised of a series of fascinating interviews that provide a first-hand look at what it took to create some of metals most important collections of music. The interview with the Dillinger Escape Plan is superb.

Great book!!!

Everyone knows Decibel is the best metal magazine around right now. Their Hall of Fame feature is the most popular. This book has some extended Hall of Fames that give detailed perspective on the making of the albums. The writing is exceptional and this book (and the magazine) are highly recommended!!!