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Edited by Albert Mudrian , Editor-in-Chief of Decibel magazin, Precious Metal takes you inside the recording studios where the most intense heavy metal albums of all time were created, providing background on the savage guitar sounds and bloodcurdling screams that have defined a musical genre. To compile this book, Mudrian pored through Decibel and expanded its interviews to bring you face-to-face with each and every band member who contributed to twenty-five immortal albums. Re

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By Nancy Manahan, Ph.D., and Becky Bohan. M.A. – In the last Open to Hope posting, “ Sacred Moments with the Body after the Death ,” Becky Bohan described the home-visitation after her sister-in-law’s death from breast cancer. For four hours, family members and friends bid a final goodbye to Diane, grieved, and supported each other in a sacred ritual. In this installment, Becky’s spouse Nancy recounts the family’s humorous journey to the crematorium and their unusual experience there.

Prosthetic Records’ has signed Seattle’s Trap Them. The band’s sound combines elements of old school Swedish death metal, punk, and d-beat and takes influence from bands such as Entombed, Black Flag, Nasum and Tragedy. Trap Them has spent time on the road with Napalm Death, Disfear, Skeletonwitch, Victims, Rotten Sound, Toxic Holocaust, and Coliseum, amongst others and has appeared at Maryland Death Fest New England Metal and Hardcore Fest. (In fact, Mark “Barney” Greenway of Napalm Death was