Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces [Paperback]

Decibelmagazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around.

Precious Metalgathers pieces fromDecibel'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.Albert Mudrainis the editor-in-chief ofDecibeland the author of the cult classicChoosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Booklist, 7/1/09
“Skimming the cream of ‘extreme’ metal--death metal, black metal, thrash metal, and such—is a grisly task, but the gang atDecibel Magazineis on top of it. Their picks are landmarks of their kind, and each is presented here with accompanying interviews of all band personnel involved…What’s here is all dark, all bombastic, all great music.”

Record Collector, August 2009
“The choice of inclusion of albums by Botch, Converge, Down and The Dillinger Escape Plan indicate the breadth of tastes which underpins the book.”

Austin Chronicle, 7/17/09
“[Precious Metal’s] impressive scope covers every facet of the genre…The roundtable, oral-history approach leads to interesting contradictions and revelations.”

Blogcritics.org, 7/21/09
“The bookends are Black Sabbath’sHeaven And Hellto Converge’sJane Doe. And there are some worthy stories in between…Precious Metalis a great book on its own terms.”

New York Post’s “Required Reading” column, 7/26/09

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