<DIV> <p><i>Decibel </i>magazine is regarded as the best extreme music magazine around.<P><i>Precious Metal</i> gathers pieces from <i>Decibel</i>'s most popular feature, the monthly &ldquo;Hall of Fame&rdquo; which documents the making of landmark metal albums via candid, hilarious, and fascinating interviews with every participating band member.<P><i>Decibel</i>'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.<P>Black Sabbath&rsquo;s <i>Heaven and Hell</i> * Diamond Head's <i>Lightning to the Nations</i> * Slayer's <i>Reign in Blood</i> * Napalm Death's <i>Scum</i> * Repulsion's <i>Horrifed</i> * Morbid Angel's <i>Altars of Madness</i> * Obituary's <i>Cause of Death</i> * Entombed's <i>Left Hand Path</i> * Paradise Lost's <i>Gothic</i> * Carcass' <i>Necroticism- Descanting the Insalubrious</i> * Cannibal Corpse's <i>Tomb of the Mutilated </i>* Eyehategod's <i>Take as Needed for Pain </i>* Darkthrone's <i>Transilvanian Hunger </i>* Kyuss's <i>Welcome to Sky Valley </i>* Meshuggah's <i>Destroy Erase Improve </i>* Monster Magnet's <i>Dopes to Infinity </i>* At the Gates' <i>Slaughter of the Soul </i>* Opeth's <i>Orchid</i> * Down's <i>NOLA</i> * Emperor's <i>In the Nightside Eclipse </i>* Sleep's <i>Jerusalem</i> * The Dillinger Escape Plan's <i>Calculating Infinity </i>* Botch's <i>We Are the Romans </i>* Converge's <i>Jane Doe </i><br> &nbsp;</p> </div>