Staff Infections – September 2020

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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