Hi, friends. It’s September; September of the year 2020, unfortunately. In light of this fact, we here at Last Rites hope you and yours are safe from fire, flood, and plague, though the chances of that seem to grow slimmer by the day. Whatever one’s current circumstances, I think we can all agree that while music won’t fix anyone’s problems, it can make them a little more bearable. With that in mind, let’s see what the staff here has been jamming for the last month or so.
As is usual the playlists are quite diverse this month. A few bands such as Incantation and Fates Warning crop up more than once, and Spencer has done his best to give Pig Destroyer a push. However, only three bands managed to have the same album make more than one playlist appearance, resulting in a three-way tie for album of the month. Both Zach and Megan have been listening to the recently released eighth full-length album from Krallice, Mass Cathexis. Continuing in the black metal vein, Ryan and Manny have been spinning Relatos de Anguistia, the sophomore album from Venezuelan (by-way-of Chile) one-man-band Selbst. Relatos de Anguistia translates to “Stories of Anguish,” and if that isn’t a fitting title for an album in 2020, I don’t know what is. Ryan digs deep into these stories with his review of Relatos de Anguistia right here. Finally, from the progressive side of things, we have Wobbler’s 2017 entry, From Silence to Somewhere, championed by both Captain and Spencer.
That about wraps it up for this month. Be sure to listen to the staff-curated Spotify playlist below, and share your own playlist in the comments. Until next time, I hope you all manage to dodge disaster. It won’t be easy.
- Ryan Tysinger
Selbst – Relatos de Anguistia
Children of the Reptile – The End
Alunah – Violet Hour
Master’s Hammer – Fascinator
Cruella – Vengeance is Mine
Autonoesis – Autonoesis - Manny-O-Lito
Death Bells – New Signs of Life
Necrot – Mortal
Drudkh – Кров у наших криницях
Mournful Congregation – The June Frost
Fates Warning – Perfect Symmetry
Selbst – Relatos de Anguistia - Andrew Edmunds
Deteriorate – Rotting In Hell
Corpsessed – Impetus Of Death
Fates Warning – Theories Of Flight
Queen – II
Incantation – Sect Of Vile Divinities
Incantation – Onward To Golgotha - Zach Duvall
The Gathering – Mandylion
Boris – Noise
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
Old Nick – various
Lizzy Borden – Love You to Pieces
Depressive Age – First Depression - Megan Astrael
Ash Borer – The Irrepassable Gate
Drudkh – Microcosmos
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
Sunn O))) – Pyroclasts
Amon Tobin – Fear In A Handful of Dust
Vök – In the Dark - LoneWatie
Pyramid Theorem – Beyond the Exosphere
John Petrucci – Terminal Velocity
Atramentus – Stygian
Rick Wakeman – The Red Planet
Rush – Grace Under Pressure
The Cure – Disintegration - Captain
Wobbler – From Silence to Somewhere
Pharmacist – Medical Renditions of Grinding Decomposition
Bill Frisell – Valentine
Ulver – Flowers of Evil
Strangelight – Adult Themes
Henrik Palm – Poverty Metal - Danhammer Obstkrieg
Metallica – S&M 2
Helion Prime – Question Everything
Bobby Hutcherson – The Kicker
Afrikan Sciences – Circuitous
Morbid Angel – Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Unearthly Trance – The Trident - Spencer Hotz
Black Elephant – Seven Swords
Pig Destroyer – Anything from 2007 and earlier
Stillbirth – Revive the Throne
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Wobbler – From Silence to Somewhere - Dave Pirtle
The Atomic Bitchwax – Scorpio
VA – Bill and Ted Face The Music
Expander – Neuropunk Boostergang
Thou – A Primer of Holy Words
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
Outlaw Order – Dragging Down the Enforcer - Jeremy Morse
Blade of the Ripper – Taste the Blade
The Allman Brothers Band – The Fillmore Concerts
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Necrophobic – The Nocturnal Silence
Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
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Pain of Salvation – Panther
Oceans of Slumber- Oceans of Slumber
Manticora – To Live to Kill to Live
Chrome Waves – Where we live
Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition Chapter lI: Render into Eden
Necrot – Mortal
Unleash the Archers – Abyss
Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville
Vredehammer – Viperous
Saor – Aura
Power Trip – Nightmare Logic (Losing Riley hurt, PT seemed like they were building something special)
Maggot Heart – Mercy Machine
Dool – Summerland
Iced Earth – Days of Purgatory
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death And Be Still
Midnight Dice – Hypnotized
Dio – Holy Diver
Looking forward to checking out the new Ulver and Oceans of Slumber releases.
Iron Maiden – “Iron Maiden”
Thin Lizzy – “Johnny the Fox”
Thin Lizzy – “Fighting”
Chelsea Wolfe – “Birth of Violence”
Emma Ruth Rundle – “On Dark Horses”
Mercyful Fate – “Don’t Break the Oath”
Weyes Blood – “Titanic Rising”
Oranssi Pazuzu – “Mestarin kynsi”
A random bag of stuff:
Bear Mace – Charred Field of Slaughter
Vader – Revelations
Manticora – To Kill to Live to Kill
Marty Friedman – Tokyo Jukebox 1
Marty Friedman – Tokyo Jukebox 2
Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
Insect Ark – The Vanishing
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin kynsi
Paradise Lost – Obsidian
Ulcerate – Stare Into Death And Be Still
Alaric – End of Mirrors
Purity Ring – Shrines
Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed
Having lost my father thus summer, my best friend’s wife two weeks ago, watching a raging pandemic and the incompetent man-baby President who has thrown down the gauntlet and signaled he will steal this election if he can get away with it has me in a somber and totally fucked mood:
Vallenfyre – A Fragile King
Insomnium – Heart Like a Grave
Swallow the Sun – When a Shadow is Forced into the Light
Disillusion – The Liberation
Ulcerate – To Stare into Death and Be Still
Miscarriage – Imminent Horror
Fates Warning – “A Pleasant Shade of Grey”
Fates Warning – “Still Life”
John Petrucci – “Terminal Velocity”
Bad Wolves – “N.A.T.I.O.N.”
Nothing More – “Self-Titled”
Pain of Salvation – “Remedy Lane”
Tool – “Fear Inoculum”