Decibel (magazine)

Decibel

Editor	Albert Mudrian
Categories	Music
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	2004
Company	Red Flag Media
Country	United States
Website	Decibel magazine

Decibel magazine is an extreme music magazine, published monthly since 2004 by Philadelphia-based publisher Red Flag Media. The magazine's recurring "Hall of Fame" feature documents landmark metal albums via interviews with every participating band member. The Editor-in-Chief is Albert Mudrian, author of the book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore

Contributing writers include J. Bennett, Joe Gross, Nick Terry, former Carcass frontman Jeffrey Walker, and Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle.

Decibel Hall of Fame

2004

• Slayer "Reign in Blood" (November)

2005

• At the Gates "Slaughter of the Soul" (March)
• Sepultura "Roots" (April)
• Life of Agony "River Runs Red" (May)
• Paradise Lost "Gothic" (June)
• Anthrax "Among the Living" (July)
• Entombed "Left Hand Path" (August)
• Carcass "Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious" (September)
• Atheist "Unquestionable Presence" (October)
• Botch "We Are the Romans" (November)
• Emperor "In the Nightside Eclipse" (December)

2006

• Cathedral "Forest of Equilibrium" (February)
• Sleep " Jerusalem" (March)
• Morbid Angel "Altars of Madness" (April)
• My Dying Bride "Turn Loose the Swans" (May)
• Eyehategod "Take as Needed for Pain" (June)
• Deadguy "Fixation on a Coworker" (July)
• Brutal Truth "Need to Control" (August)
• Rollins Band "The End of Silence" (September)
• Monster Magnet "Dopes to Infinity" (October)
• Meshuggah "Destroy Erase Improve" (November)
• The Dillinger Escape Plan "Calculating Infinity" (December)

2007

• Only Living Witness "Prone Mortal Form" (January)
• Celtic Frost "Morbid Tales" (February)
• Darkthrone "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" (March)
• Cryptic Slaughter " Money Talks" (April)
• Obituary "Cause of Death" (May)
• Quicksand "Slip" (June)
• Cave In "Until Your Heart Stops" (July)
• Bad Brains "Bad Brains" (August)
• Electric Wizard "Dopethrone" (September)
• Immortal "At the Heart of Winter" (October)

External links

• Decibel magazine
• Decibel magazine at MySpace
• Rockcritics.com's Oral History of Decibel Magazine
• Decibel "Night at the Office" commercial