Decibel

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Decibel

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

Decibel is a monthly extreme music magazine published by the Philadelphia-based Red Flag Media. Since October 2004, Decibel has featured up-and-coming and underground artists of extreme music on its cover. Of the many feature sections of the magazine, including Up Front, Features, Reviews and guest columns, the Decibel "Hall of Fame" is the most well-known section. The magazine's recurring Hall of Fame feature documents landmark metal albums via interviews with every participating band member. Because the Decibel Hall of Fame has attracted many readers over the years, Editor-in-Chief Albert Mudrian compiled 25 of the more spectacular Hall of Fame inductees into a book titled Precious Metal-25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces, released summer 2009. Mudrian is also the author of the book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore. The magazine's tag-line is currently "Extremely Extreme" (previously "The New Noise").

An excerpt from Decibel Magazine's mission statement reads,

"Decibel Magazine is founded upon a steadfast commitment to quality, cutting-edge coverage of every subgenre under the expanding umbrella of extreme music. Examining the topic from the same professional perspective that Spin and Rolling Stone provide for mainstream rock music, Decibel has assembled the finest professional extreme music journalists in the world. The glossy full-color monthly will rival any of its European counterparts, providing American metal, hardcore and extreme rock fans with insightful interviews, reviews, news, and a myriad of special features they won't find anywhere else."

Contributing writers include J. Bennett, Joe Gross, Nick Terry, Zena Tsarfin, Kevin Stewart-Panko, Carcass frontman Jeffrey Walker, and Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle.

Though the magazine is fairly young and operates in a genre which receives relatively little exposure in the mainstream media, Decibel is often enough cited as authoritative by some media outlets, including National Public Radio^[1], the Boston Globe^[2], and the San Antonio Express-News.^[3]

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

December 2006 with Converge.

• 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)
• Katatonia "Brave Murder Day" (November)
• Diamond Head "Lightning to the Nations" (December)

2008

• Converge "Jane Doe" (January)
• Opeth "Orchid" (February)
• Coalesce "0:12 Revolution in Just Listening" (March)
• Mastodon "Remission" (April)
• Napalm Death "Scum" (May)
• Cannibal Corpse "Tomb of the Mutilated" (June)
• Down "NOLA" (July)
• Repulsion "Horrified" (August)
• Black Sabbath "Heaven and Hell" (September)
• Testament "The Legacy" (October)
• Kyuss "Welcome to Sky Valley" (November)
• Metallica "...And Justice For All" (December)

2009

• Candlemass "Nightfall" (January)
• Incantation "Onward to Golgotha" (February)
• Discordance Axis "The Inalienable Dreamless" (March)
• Autopsy "Mental Funeral" (April)
• Suffocation "Effigy of the Forgotten" (May)
• Nile "Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka" (April)
• Stormtroopers of Death "Speak English or Die" (July)
• Judge "Bringin' It Down" (August)
• Dirty Rotten Imbeciles "Dealing With It" (September)
• Cynic "Focus" (October)
• Accept "Restless and Wild" (November)
• Trouble "Psalm 9" (December)

2010

• Watchtower "Control and Resistance" (January)

References

External links

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

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