We’ll announce the winner of the Decibel Hall of Fame contest next week; in the meantime, here’s the latest installment of “Fear, Emptiness, Decibel,” the new MetalSucks column from the editors of our favorite magazine — duh — Decibel.

So, right around this time last year, we had a release party for our Hall of Fame compilation Precious Metal (working title: It Puts the Metal in the Basket or Don’t You Make Me Hurt Your Dog, Mister!). For those of you lucky enough to live in or around Brooklyn, you probably had multiple chances to clothesline hipsters en route to the Masonic Temple, where Brutal Truth and Pig Destroyer opened for Repulsion, who were gnarly enough to play their unfuckwithable inductee Horrified in its entirety. Rad times were had by all but yours truly, as I stayed home to knit and discover the subtle wonders of my Enya box set.

Obviously, we’re not the first magazine to think that great bands playing great records in sequence is a sweet idea (although I’m the first managing editor that would endorse Waking the Cadaver playing Perverse Recollection of a Necromangler in Sergeant D’s driveway), but we’re the only one making it happen on a semi-charmed kind of regular basis. Hence the shunniest of the shunners, the mighty Incantation, will be riveting 1992 death metal masterpiece Onward to Golgotha into NYC’s collective dickhead on November 20. The br00tality will commence at Rebel (251 W. 30^th), and if that isn’t cool enough, Relapse will release a limited Decibel Hall of Fame edition of OTG to coincide with the show. Expect two additional Golgotha shows to be announced soon, as well as ticket info. Yeah, you’re fucking welcome. (I had nothing to do with this, as usual.)

-AB

Buy yourself a copy of the September 2010 issue of Decibel here, or just go ahead and buy yourself a full subscription here. It comes down to about two bucks an issue for a one-year subscription, which is roughly thirty-six dollars more a year you could be spending on that cream you need.