Staff Infections – July 2018

Here we are in July, dear readers, and we at Last Rites Hope you’ve been keeping your grill hot, your beverages cold and your sunscreen liberally applied. For our American readers, we hope you made it through Independence Day with all your fingers still attached, and without some shithead neighbor(s) calling the cops and ruining the fun for everyone because their precious, should-have-been-put-down-five-fucking-years-ago dog was scared. It’s one god-damned day a year, for Christ’s sake. Lighten up, you miserable, old bastards.

Anyway, this here is Staff Infections, wherein the Last Rites staff shares what they’ve been listening to for the past month or so. There was no runaway favorite this time around, but there are several albums with a few playlist appearances a piece, so let us highlight a few of them.

Due to the untimely passing of Vinnie Paul last month, some of us on staff, myself included, have been salving our grief with Vinnie’s music. I realize Pantera is a polarizing band, particularly in the underground metal community, but I can’t ever pretend that I didn’t love them. Their music was the soundtrack to untold tons of weight lifted in high school, and their shows—oh so many shows—were some of the best times I’ve ever had. Our own Dave Pirtle penned an eloquent and heartfelt tribute to Vinnie, which you can read right here. The song below—“Becoming,” from 1994’s Far Beyond Driven—was supposedly born from one of Vinnie’s drum patterns, and it’s always been one of my favorites. Have a listen. And maybe smash something.

A few other favorites this month include the recently released death metal triumph, Abiogenesis, from Burial Invocation (some asshole wrote about it here), the seriously rotten debut from Mortuous, Through the Wilderness (some handsome, witty fellow wrote about it here), and finally, some pure second-wave styled black metal from Nahtrunar in the form of Mysterium Tremendum. Konrad Kantor has some words about in part four of our Missing Pieces feature, wherein you can also read up on a host of great 2018 releases that have not been previously covered here at Last Rites.

 

 

 

Until next month, take care of yourselves. Be sure to share your playlist in the comments. And if you’re not too cool for school, share your favorite Pantera song as well.

• • • Zach Duvall
      Mortuous – Through Wilderness
      Angelcorpse – Exterminate
      Incantation – Diabolical Conquest
      Immolation – Atonement
      Vader – The Ultimate Incantation
      Dismember – Death Metal
    • Andrew Edmunds
      Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
      Wake – Misery Rites
      Nils Patrick Johansson – Evil Deluxe
      Sisters Of Mercy – Floodland
      Nile – Annihilation Of The Wicked
      Overkill – Under The Influence
    • Captain
      Nahtrunar – Mysterium Tremendum
      Sear Bliss – Letters From The Edge
      Abhorrence – Megalohydrothalassophobic
      John Coltrane – Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
      Slough Feg – Atavism
      Giya Kancheli – Magnum Ignotum
    • Manny-O-War
      Unsane – Blood Run
      Mortuous – Through Wilderness
      Blood – Impulse to Destroy
      Ride for Revenge – Wisdom of the Few
      Burial Invocation – Abiogenesis
      40 Watt Sun – Wider than the Sky
    • Konrad Kantor
      Nahtrunar – Mysterium Tremendum
      Svrm – Лихиї вітри стогнjeь без упину
      Horna / Pure – Split
      Immolation – Atonement
      Inspecter 7 – …The Infamous
      Vast Aire – Ox 2010: A Space Odyssey
    • Ryan Tysinger
      Jyotiṣavedāṅga – Thermogravimertry Warp Continuum
      Running Wild – Gates to Purgatory
      Hyborian Steel – Barbaric Mysticism
      Tomb Mold – Manor Of Infinite Forms
      Spirals – Spirals
      Invocation Spells – Spread Cruelty In The Abyss
    • Dave Pirtle
      Slapshot – Make America Hate Again
      I Drink My Coffee Alone – Skateelsya
      Opeth – Blackwater Park
      Orange Goblin – The Wolf Bites Back
      Rebel Meets Rebel – Rebel Meets Rebel
      Pantera – Discography
    • Dan Obstkrieg
      Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
      Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
      Khorada – Salt
      Leon Vynehall – Nothing is Still
      Sear Bliss – Letters from the Edge
      Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill
    • Jeremy Morse
      Burial Invocation – Abiogenesis
      Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
      StarGazer – A Great Work of Ages
      Crescent Shield – The Last of My Kind
      Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum
    • Chris Sessions
      Tomb Mold – Manor of Infinite Forms
      Nile – Catalog Revisitation
      The Bealtes – Revolver
      Iron Maiden – Early albums
      Slugdge – Esoteric Malacology