“Album Of The Day” is a Last Rites Facebook feature we started whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone chooses to participate in the booking of faces, we thought it might be nice to toss in a feature that gathers the albums in a single piece on a weekly basis.
Here are the seven albums we picked for the week of July 28th — August 3rd // HAIKU EDITION
Sunday, July 28th
Corrosion of Conformity – In the Arms of God (2005)
Big riffs and rawness
A thundering monolith
No Reed, no problem
Monday, July 29th
Manilla Road –
(1983)
Every time you play
A Manilla Road record
Mark the Shark smiles down
Tuesday, July 30th
Limbonic Art – Moon in the Scorpio (1996)
To be frank, the rest
Of this band’s stuff kinda honks.
‘Moon,’ though, fucking rules.
Wednesday, July 31st
Sick Of It All – Blood, Sweat, and No Tears (1989)
Classic ‘core from these
NYC bruisers still kills.
It’s clobbering time.
Thursday, August 1st
Celestiial – Desolate North (2006)
Quite possibly the
Most ambient funeral
Doom album ever.
Friday, August 2nd
Enslaved – Vertebrae (2008)
The crew here all know
I loathed this album for years
Shit, now you do, too
BONUS HAIKU
Now I’ve seen the light!
Vertebrae is amazing
Please forgive me, friends
Saturday, August 3rd
Suicidal Tendencies – Suicidal Tendencies (1983)
Hardcore beginnings
Of crossover kings. Get the
man a damn Pepsi.
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See you next week.
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I love the random nature of these selections. The Sick of it All pick just reminds me of how gutted I am that I’ll be out of town when they play with Napalm Death.
On the positive, late summer means it’s time to spin the Manilla Road discography again.
Cheers!