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Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 4:00pm by

Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here’s managing editor Andrew Bonazelli…

Some of our Decibel Hall of Fames don’t happen because a prominent member is dead. Some of them don’t happen because we just can’t track down that fucking keyboardist who found Jesus and changed his name out of embarrassment. And then the rest don’t happen because the members simply hate each other’s fucking guts—my favorite subset of that being when everyone can’t stand the purported “mastermind.”

In this month’s case, we’ve got an example of the latter that somehow worked out (after a lot of pleading and ego-massaging), and it’s easily as entertaining and hilarious as J. Bennett’s write-up of Monster Magnet’s Dopes to Infinity. Check out the audio below, try to identify who’s rhapsodizing about the bad old days, and we’ll hook you up with a six-month subscription.

DECIBEL HALL OF FAME NOVEMBER 2011

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Decibel’s October 2011 issue features Mastodon, The Black Dahlia Murder, YOB, Today is the Day, Dimmu Borgir, Testament, a Queensrÿche/Operation: Mindcrime Hall of Fame and an awesome Skeletonwitch flexi disc. But why not just get a full subscription to ensure that you never miss an issue?

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  • http://diggin-graves.blogspot.com/ TheFool

    His voice and the way he talks reminds me a lot of Mike from Darkest Hour, but I’m positive that’s not who this is.

    • Jason Newsted

      that was obviously glenn benton obviously

  • Apkinj

    That description makes me think of either Megadeth or Deicide.  That doesn’t sound like anybody from the Rust In Peace lineup, so I’m gonna guess Deicide.

  • DC Metallian

    I have to guess Van Halen.

    • Apkinj

      Eh, they’re too “hard rock” for that magazine.  Besides, unless this is the 1984 record, I don’t think the band hated each other just then.

      • http://diggin-graves.blogspot.com/ TheFool

        I actually think that’s a pretty good guess. His comparison to The Who makes me think this is a very old school rock band.

        • Apkinj

          If Albert Mudrian is smart (he has fucked up in the past, i.e. Roots for Seputura), then he’d be interviewing these guys about Van Halen 1.  There’s no way these guys hated each other that early in their career.  Otherwise somebody would have split a lot sooner than 1985.

        • Apkinj

          If Albert Mudrian is smart (he has fucked up in the past, i.e. Roots for Seputura), then he’d be interviewing these guys about Van Halen 1.  There’s no way these guys hated each other that early in their career.  Otherwise somebody would have split a lot sooner than 1985.

      • http://diggin-graves.blogspot.com/ TheFool

        I actually think that’s a pretty good guess. His comparison to The Who makes me think this is a very old school rock band.

  • http://www.reverbnation.com/ebonysorrow666 Ebony Sorrow

    Im guessing it’s Today Is The Day. That guy has a new lineup every god damn album he does

  • http://www.reverbnation.com/ebonysorrow666 Ebony Sorrow

    Im guessing it’s Today Is The Day. That guy has a new lineup every god damn album he does

  • Cryptic Slaughter

    Check out past Decibel Hall of Famers Cryptic Slaughter and their 1988 break up tour. http://www.themetallounge.blogspot.com

  • Faed

    I’m deaf, how am I supposed to enter the contest?

    • hybridofsteel

      So what, you listen to braillecore?

    • hybridofsteel

      So what, you listen to braillecore?

    • hybridofsteel

      So what, you listen to braillecore?

  • Faed

    I’m deaf, how am I supposed to enter the contest?

  • http://www.facebook.com/FlannelBastard Dylan Jones

    That was obviously Miley Cyrus.  Have you heard her “Party In America”
    Goddamn metal classic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/FlannelBastard Dylan Jones

    That was obviously Miley Cyrus.  Have you heard her “Party In America”
    Goddamn metal classic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/FlannelBastard Dylan Jones

    That was obviously Miley Cyrus.  Have you heard her “Party In America”
    Goddamn metal classic.

  • Apkinj

    Yea, the more I think about it, the more that guy sounds like Steve Asheim from Deicide.  I’m goin Deicide.

  • Apkinj

    Yea, the more I think about it, the more that guy sounds like Steve Asheim from Deicide.  I’m goin Deicide.

  • Apkinj

    Yea, the more I think about it, the more that guy sounds like Steve Asheim from Deicide.  I’m goin Deicide.

  • yep.

    yea, that has to be Asheim. I’m assuming the album is Scars of the Crucifix? That seems to be about the time period that things started to fall apart between them and the Hoffman brothers….

    • Apkinj

      I hope not, the s/t and Legion are the two most acclaimed albums from Deicide.  This would be a massive wasted opportunity if they did Scars.

    • Apkinj

      I hope not, the s/t and Legion are the two most acclaimed albums from Deicide.  This would be a massive wasted opportunity if they did Scars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/FlannelBastard Dylan Jones

    I wish Death could get a HOF article, even without Chuck, I’m always more than glad to read about Death.

  • http://www.facebook.com/FlannelBastard Dylan Jones

    I wish Death could get a HOF article, even without Chuck, I’m always more than glad to read about Death.

    • http://www.facebook.com/NuttersaurusRex Austin Sharktopus Nutter

      Yeah um they did that a couple issues back. They interviewed like pretty much everybody who ever played in Death that wasn’t Chuck. It was ridiculously thorough.

  • Mike

    kinda sounds like Al Jourgensen of Ministry.

  • Mike

    kinda sounds like Al Jourgensen of Ministry.

  • http://www.facebook.com/theblackening George Silano III

    Rust in Peace, perhaps?

  • http://www.facebook.com/theblackening George Silano III

    Rust in Peace, perhaps?

  • Scihorror

    I’m going for W.A.S.P. – Self-titled…