Have you ever wondered to yourself just what the learned, well-mannered and temperate folks at Last Rites have been listening to during any particular month? Well, friends, you’re in luck, because we have this little feature we call Staff Infections, and it will satisfy your every curiosity as to the Last Rites crew’s listening habits.
As is tradition, we will highlight some of the most frequently occurring albums in the playlists this month. As you might know if you’ve been reading Last Rites for a while, ever increasing numbers of the Last Rites staff and esteemed associates make the annual pilgrimage to Maryland Deathfest, which takes place every Memorial Day weekend in Baltimore. As you might also know, we are pretty big fans of The Chasm around here, and it just so happened that The Chasm made a rare live appearance at this year’s MDF, and I think I can speak for the entire group when I say we were fucking impressed. Personally, I thought the band was better live than on record, and the records are pretty spectacular. Hot off this wonderful experience, the staff has been binging on The Chasm’s music, and so the group’s entire discography takes the blue ribbon this month. I don’t think it would be appropriate to offer a sample from every one of their albums, but thanks to smartphones and YouTube, I can offer you a little taste of The Chasm’s MDF set.
As for second place, it’s a three-way tie this month featuring another Maryland Deathfest performer and staff favorite, Immolation (with its most recent album Atonement), the latest self-titled album from doom legends Saint Vitus, and the recently released Zentrum from Valborg. Enjoy some samples from each below, be sure to share your own playlist in the comments, and tell us the best live band you’ve ever seen. Until next month, stay hydrated and be careful with fireworks.
- Zach Duvall
The Chasm – Every Damn Deathculty Thing
Anacrusis – Screams and Whispers
Soror Dolorosa – Apollo
Saint Vitus – Saint Vitus (2019)
Valborg – Zentrum
Psychotic Waltz – Into the Everflow - Captain
Immolation – Unholy Cult
Immolation – Atonement
Disharmonic Orchestra – Not to Be Undimensional Conscious
The Chasm – All of it
Cenotaph – The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden Sorrows
Disentomb – The Decaying Light - Manny-O-War
The Chasm – The Complete Discography
Saint Vitus – Saint Vitus (2019)
Scumripper – All Veins Blazing
De La Soul – Stakes is High
Immolation – Atonement
Opeth – Still Life - Ryan Tysinger
The Chasm – err’thang
Immolation – Kingdom Of Conspiracy
Encoffinized – Chambers Of Deprivation
Nocternity – Onyx
Paladin – Ascension
Tormentor – Anno Domini - Chris Sessions
Iron Maiden – Killers
Failure – In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind
Immolation – Providence
TT Quick – Metal of Honor
Nasum – Helvete - Konrad Kantor
The Chasm – Discography
Burst – Lazarus Bird
Autechre – NTS Sessions
Flotsam & Jetsam – The End of Chaos
Queensryche – The Verdict
Arch/Matheos – Winter Ethereal - Danhammer Obstkrieg
Valborg – Zentrum
Concrete Winds – Primitive Force
Ulver – Drone Activity
Enthroned – Cold Black Suns
Gas – Zauberberg
Kyle Bobby Dunn – From Here to Eternity - Andrew Edmunds
Coroner – No More Color
Cutty Sark – Die Tonight
Death – The Sound Of Perseverance
Nocturnus – Thresholds
Scorpions – Blackout
The Cure – Seventeen Seconds - Lone Watie
The Chasm – Discography
Immolation – Dawn of Possession
Tormentor – Demos 87 & 89
Fleshcrawl – Descend into the Absurd
Iron Maiden – S/T & Killers
Big Big Train – Grand Tour - Dave Pirtle
Clawfinger – Deaf Dumb and Blind
Duff McKagan – Tenderness
Darkthrone – Old Star
Stormlord – Far
Rammstein – Rammstein
Gloryhammer – Legends from the Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex - Jeremy Morse
The Chasm – All them Chasms
Nocturnus A. D. – Paradox
Sepultura – Beneath the Remains
Blade of the Ripper – Taste the Blade
Iced Earth – Days of Purgatory
Opeth – Blackwater Park
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Arcturus – Sham Mirrors
Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
Darkthrone – Old Star
CRJ – Dedicated
Enslaved – Riitiir
Forbidden – Twisted Into Form
Lunar Shadow – The Smokeless Fires
Arch / Matheos – Winter Ethereal
Death Angel – Humanicide
Fates Warning – Live Over Europe
Voivod – Post Society
Darkthrone – Old Star
Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts
Omnium Gatherum – The Burning Cold
Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Ceaser
Cryptic Slaughter – Convicted
Cryptic Slaugher – Money Talks
Send More Paramedics – The Awakening
Thou – Heathen
Agalloch – The Mantle
Fen – Epoch
System of a Down – Toxicity
ISOLE- THE CALM HUNTER
SULPHUR AEON-SWALLOWED BY THE OCEANS TIDE
ARCH MATHEOS- WINTER ETHEREAL
ARCH MATHEOS- SYMPATHETIC RESONANCE
AMORPHIS- UNDER THE RED CLOUD
WARRIOR PATH – SELF TITLED
Vehemence – “Par le sange versee”
Venom Prison – “Samsara”
Arch/Matheos – “Winter Eternal”
Wishfield – S/T
Iskra – “Ruins”
Gogo Penguin – “A Humdrum Star”
The Flaming Lips – “The Soft Bulletin”
Maybe I’m just a bit slow to catch up on new releases, but at the midway point of this year, there’s definitely not as many new albums that I’m as excited about as in recent years past. Other than the new Venom Prison and Misery Index, I haven’t really found myself coming back to a lot of stuff. (Ok I’ll add Nasheim, Traveler, and Vehemence to the equation, and new Arch/Matheos is also making a run for it too.) I guess this is just a way of saying I’m still looking forward to being blown away by some new releases this year.
Defecrator – Abortion of Humanity
Earth – Full Upon Her Burning Lips
Pelican – Nighttime Songs
Prong – Cleansing
Prong – Beg to Differ
Agnostic Front – Something’s Gotta Give
The Ominous Circle – Appalling Ascension
Itheist – Itheist
Wormlight – Wrath of the Wilds
Deus Mortem – Kosmocide
Drawn into Descent – The Endless Endeavour
Eneferens – The Bleakness of Our Constant
Paara – Riitti
PS. The Chasm is awesome. Havent listened to them in a while.