Staff Infections – January 2022

Happy New Year, friends. It’s time for Staff Infections, wherein the Last Rites staff share what we’ve been listening to over the last month, and hopefully you, dear readers, come away with an appreciation of our fine taste in music and some new tunes to check out. Here’s hoping you and yours passed the holidays in good health and good spirits. I don’t suppose many of us are ringing in 2022 with shit-loads of optimism. I’d like to think we’re closer to the end of this pandemic than to the beginning, but Omicron isn’t inspiring a lot of hope for a rapid conclusion to this mess. Though times might be tough, carry on we must, and thankfully we have metal to help sustain us. Now, let’s see what we’ve been listening to.

The playlists this month did not have much in common, as only two albums made more than one appearance, resulting in a tie for album of the month with no runners-up. First up is something fresh in the form of the forthcoming album A Nocturnal Crossing, from French doom band Deathbell. Sharing the crown is a US trad-metal classic from 2003, The Lord Weird Slough Feg’s concept album / masterpiece Traveler. I suspect a review for A Nocturnal Crossing is in the offing, but sadly, even though this site was around in 2003 (under the MetalReview banner), we have no review of Traveler in the archives. If you’d like to know more about Slough Feg, check out our Devil’s Dozen from a few years ago.

That’ll just about do it for this month, friends. Check out the Spotify playlist below, which features selections from this month’s staff playlists. And be sure to share your own playlist in the comments. Finally, in the spirit of the new year, rather that share your new year’s resolutions, share a resolution you hope a metal band or individual makes this year. Here’s a couple examples: Dave Mustaine should resolve to be less of a right-wing, Christian asshole in 2021, and Solstice should resolve to not take twenty fucking years to make another album. You get the idea.  See you all next month.

• Zach Duvall
  Stormkeep – Tales of Othertime
  Terra Odium – Ne Plus Ultra
  Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn
  Progenie Terrestre Pura – oltreLuna
  Giant Sky – Giant Sky
  Plebeian Grandstand – Rien ne suffit
• Andrew Edmunds
  Heinous – Gore From The Gutter
  Wildside – Under The Influence
  Cancer – Death Shall Rise
  Rot – Old Dirty Grindcores
  Cathedral – Endtyme
  Nasum – Inhale / Exhale
• Dave Pirtle
  Majestica – A Christmas Carol
  Baron Carta – In a Concrete Room
  Thor – Alliance
  Feuerschwanz – Memento Mori
  Ye Banished Privateers – A Pirate Stole My Christmas
  Devin Townsend – The Puzzle
• Captain
  Kosmodome – Kosmodome
  Deviant Process – Nurture
  Anatomy of Habit – Even if it Takes a Lifetime
  Deathbell – A Nocturnal Crossing
  Voivod – The Wake
  Soror Dolorosa – Apollo
• Spencer Hotz
  Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
  Bound In Fear – Penance
  Napalm Death – Smear Campaign
  Gridlink – Longhena
  Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
  Grima – Rotten Garden
• Danhammer Obstkrieg
  The Neptune Power Federation – Le Demon de l’Amour
  Messa – Belfry
  Burial – Untrue
  Deathbell – A Nocturnal Crossing
  Summoning – Oath Bound
  Mason Jennings – Use Your Voice
• Lone Watie
  The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Traveller
  Bolt Thrower – The IVth Crusade
  Akelei – Een Van Ons
  Kumorigahara – Kumorigahara
  t – Solipsystemology
  Van der Graaf Generator – Still Life
• Ryan Tysinger
  Ophicvs – Everything
  Druid Lord – Relics of the Dead
  Pakkt –To Brocken Heights Where Witches Dance
  A.M.S.G. – Anti-Cosmic Tyranny
  Satan – Cruel Magic
  The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Traveller
• Chris Chellis
  Solarus – A Dance with Tragedy
  Old Man’s Child – Born of the Flickering
  The End Machine – Phase2
  Memory Garden – 1349
  Eternity’s End – Embers of War
  Amorphis – Eclipse
• Jeremy Morse
  Metallica – Ride the Lightning
  Obituary – Slowly We Rot
  Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales
  Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction
  Sodom – M-16

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