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Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces Original Edition
Author(s): Albert Mudrian
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Publication Date: 14 July 2009
- Edition: Original
- Language: English
- Print length: 377 pages
- ISBN-10: 030681806X
- ISBN-13: 9780306818066
Book Description
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&rdquo 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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About the Author
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.
