It’s time, once again, for you to marvel at the Last Rites staff’s spectacularly good taste in music. Let’s see what the heck we’ve been listening to this past month.
If you’ve been hanging around Last Rites long enough, you might have gleaned that most of us here are big Candlemass fans. So it should come as no surprise that the band’s latest release, The Door to Doom, has been getting a fair bit of attention around here. In fact, Captain gave it a whole lot of attention, with his review/history lesson, which you can read right here. What might come as a surprise is that sharing first place this month with Candlemass is Warmoon Lord and their (his) debut album, Burning Banners of the Funereal War. Who the heck is Warmoon Lord? A quick trip to Metal Archives tells me Warmoon Lord is a Finnish black metal band. Let us have a listen to a sample from both Warmoon Lord and Candlemass.
Second place this month is shared by Japanese experimental rock group (at least that’s what Allmusic calls them) Mono and American progressive metal group Queensrÿche, with the albums Nowhere Now Here and The Verdict, respectively. Mono is, perhaps, a bit outside our purview, but Queensrÿche is right in the old wheelhouse, so a verdict on The Verdict might be forthcoming.
That’s all for now, folks. Be sure to share your playlist in the comments, and until next month, take care of yourselves and thank your lucky stars that you don’t live in Venezuela. If you do happen to live in Venezuela, here’s hoping there is, at the very least, a stable food supply in your very near future.
- Ryan Tysinger
Eternity’s End – Unyielding
Magnabolt – Magnabolt
Leather Nunn – Take The Night
Funereal Presence – Achatius
Deicide – Once Upon The Cross
Mystifier – Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia - Andrew Edmunds
Queensrÿche – The Verdict
Catheter – Dimension 303
Agathocles – Superiority Overdose
Frank Zappa – Waka / Jawaka
Overkill – The Wings Of War
Candlemass – The Door To Doom - Captain
Mono – Nowhere Now Here
Heart – Little Queen
bvdub – Explosions in Slow Motion
Murg – Strävan
Undeath – Demo ’19
Pissgrave – Posthumous Humiliation - Manny-O-War
Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock
Talk Talk – It’s My Life
Talk Talk – The Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk – The Party’s Over
Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis - Zach Duvall
Candlemass – The Door to Doom
Warmoon Lord – Burning Banners of the Funereal War
Saint Vitus – Saint Vitus
Black Flag – Slip It In
Manes – Under ein blodraud maane
Mystifier – Göetia - Lone Watie
Queensrÿche – The Verdict
Mono – Nowhere Now Here
Digression Assassins – Oblivion
Warmoon Lord – Burning Banners of the Funereal War
Magnesis – Alice au Pays des Délires
Karfagen – Echoes from Within Dragon Island - Konrad Kantor
Warmoon Lord – Burning Banners of the Funereal War
Sarastus – Enter the Necropolis
Indecision – Unorthodox
Shai Hulud – Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion
Autechre – elseq 1-5
Mercyful Fate – Time - Danhammer Obstkrieg
Deafkids – Metaprogramação
Jega – Geometry
Lubomyr Melnyk – Fallen Trees
Rhapsody Of Fire – The Eighth Mountain
Chris Potter – Circuits
Helheim – Jormundgand - Jeremy Morse
Candlemass – The Door to Doom
Death – Human
Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed
Solstice – White Horse Hill
Judas Priest – Firepower
Thin Lizzy – Black Rose: A Rock Legend - Chris Sessions
Van Halen – I
Van Halen – Women and Children First
Van halen – Fair Warning
Pat Travers – Crash and Burn
Pat Travers – Radio Active
Cheap Trick – Dream Police
Cheap Trick – Live at Budokan
- Ryan Tysinger
Wachenfeldt – The Interpreter (I know this is ridiculous, because we’re not out of the first quarter yet, but this is a *serious* AOTY contender)
Veilburner – A Side to the Ghouls of Lunacy
Fear Factory – Mechanize
Fear Factory – Archetype
Nasheim – Solens Vemod
MDC – Millions of Dead Cops / More Dead Cops
Madball – Hold it Down
Agnostic Front – The American Dream Died
Biohazard – Mata Leao
Huey Lewis & The News – Greatest Hits
Bong – Live at Roadburn box set
Obsequiae – Aria of Vernal Tombs
W.A.I.L. – Wisdom Through Agony Into Illumination and Lunacy vol. II
Sear Bliss – Letters from the Edge
Madder Mortem – Marrow
First Fragment – Dasein
Soen – Lotus
Mad John the Wise – Voyager
Jag Panzer – the deviant chord
Sanhedrin – the poisoner
Oceans of slumber – the banished heart
Darkest era- the last caress of light
King’s X – Faith, Hope, Love
Realm – Suiciety
Candlemass – Door to Doom
Tool – Aenima
King’s X – Live in London
Realm rules
First time listening and agree. They rule. Love the bass.
Yerusalem – The Sublime
Pod People – Doom Saloon
Anaal Nathrakh – Passion
Old Man Gloom – The Ape of God (I & II)
Sleep – The Sciences
Entropia- vacuum
Oranssi Pazuzu and isis had a baby
Nasheim- jord och aska
Can’t believe no one has brought this up here yet but damn it’s good
Devil Master – “Satan Spits on Children of Light”
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats – “Bloodlust”
Iron Maiden – “Killers”
Big Country – “Steeltown”
Big Country – “The Crossing”
Big Country – “Wonderland” EP
Sigrid – “Sucker Punch”
Funereal Prescence – “Achatius”
Grave Miasma – “Odori Sepulcrorum”
Voivod – “The Wake”