Staff Infections – July 2019

It’s time for Staff Infections, friends. Here’s hoping you Northern hemisphere denizens are finding some time for fun in the summer sun or relief from the oppressive heat, as your local climate dictates. Now let’s see what the Last Rites staff has been listening to while lighting off fireworks and wolfing down hot dogs.

The playlists this month feature no clear favorite. Instead, we have a three-way tie for first place, including the just-released Vortex from Canadian trad / speed metal stalwarts Metalian, the still relatively fresh New Organon from staff favorite The Lord Weird Slough Feg and Far from Italian symphonic / whateverthefuck outfit Stormlord. El Capitan has the scoop on both Vortex and New Organon. As for Far, we missed that one. We missed some other stuff too, but in attempt to rectify such oversights, we played a bit of catch-up over the past week with a three-part series entitled Missing Pieces 2019: The Best Of What We’ve Missed So Far. You can check out all three parts here, here and here.

About now I would normally be telling you to check out some samples of our albums of the month via some embedded Bandcamp or Youtube videos. This month, however, we are leaping into the future (or maybe just the present) with a Spotify playlist curated by the Last Rites staff, and spearheaded by your pal and mine, Andy Almonds. The playlist includes tracks from our albums of the month (except for Vortex, which is as of yet unavailable), as well as songs culled from individual staff playlists. There’s no guarantee you’ll ever be as cool as us folks here at Last Rites, but listening to some of the same music we do will probably make you at least a little bit cooler. Have a great month, and be sure to share your playlist in the comments.

And while you’re reading, play along at home with this fancy playlist:

• Ryan Tysinger
  Akasha – Canticles Of The Sepulchral Deity
  Mütiilation – Sorrow Galaxies
  Olkoth – The Immortal Depths & Treasures Of Necromancy
  Cryptae – Vestigial
  The Chasm – Farseeing The Paranormal Absym
  Abyssal – A Beacon In The Husk
• Zach Duvall
  Anathema – Distant Satellites
  King Crimson – The Power to Believe
  Amorphis – The Queen of Time
  Wham! – Make it Big
  Talking Heads – Remain in Light
  Zemial – NYKTA
• Manny-O-War
  Drab Majesty – Modern Mirror
  Cerebral Rot – Glorious Descent into Decay
  Ravensire – A Stone Engraved in Red
  Ogranectomy – Existential Disconnect
  Wintersun – Wintersun
  Devourment – Obscene Majesty
• Andrew Edmunds
  Krypts – Cadaver Circulation
  Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn
  Birdflesh – Extreme Graveyard Tornado
  Nocturnus – Thresholds
  Incantation – Blasphemy
  The Cure – Disintegration
• Captain
  Metalian – Vortex
  Altar Of Oblivion – The Seven Spirits
  Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance
  Stormlord – Far
  The Chasm – Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
  Crypt Sermon – The Ruins of Fading Light
• Konrad Kantor
  Tiga – Sexor
  Autechre – LP5
  Laurel Halo – DJ-Kicks
  Mark Knopfler – Sailing to Philadelphia
  Immolation – Atonement
  Burzum – Burzum/Aske
• Dave Pirtle
  Warrior Soul – Rock n Roll Disease
  Stormlord – Far
  Skelator – Cyber Metal
  Turilli / Lione Rhapsody – Zero Gravity (Rebirth & Evolution)
  The Lord Weird Slough Feg – New Organon
  Potential Threat SF – Threat to Society
• Danhammer Obstkrieg
  Wormed – Metaportal
  Funeral Storm – Arcane Mysteries
  Konx-om-Pax – Ways of Seeing
  Metalian – Vortex
  Bones – Diseased
  Matias Aguayo – Support Alien Invasion
• Chris Sessions
  David Bowie – Earthling
  Chasm – Spell of Retribution
  Possessed – Seven Churches
  Terrorizer – all of it
  Nuclear Assault – Game Over
  Failure – In The Future, Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing from Your Mind
• Jeremy Morse
  Ozzy Osbourne – Tribute
  Darkthrone – Old Star
  Arch/Matheos – Winter Ethereal
  Centurion’s Ghost – A Sign of Things to Come
  The Lord Weird Slough Feg – New Organon
  Venom – Black Metal

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