Staff Infections – July 2022

It’s time once again, dear readers, to gape in awe at the Last Rites staff’s sublime taste in music. Don’t gape too long, though. Instead, take notes, so that one day, with the right amount of knowledge, refined listening habits and a healthy does of toxic elitism, you can be almost as cool as us. Don’t be afraid to reach for the stars, kids.

The world keeps spiraling into an authoritarian shit abyss, so we’ll suspend the current events talk this month. I would, however, like to offer my condolences to those of you who may have recently lost or are in imminent danger of losing your reproductive rights.

Let’s see who this month’s big winners are. First we have some honorable mentions for Cannibal Corpse and Napalm Death, each of whom have multiple playlist appearances with assorted albums from their respective discographies. Now, on to the big winner. Technically, we have a three-way tie for first place, Including the recent released A Light for Attracting Attention from the Radiohead-related group The Smile, and the also recently released Closure / Continuation, the comeback album from prog masters Porcupine Tree. Sadly, the aforementioned titles have been disqualified for not being metal, and so our album of the month is Thought Form Descent, full-length number six from Canadian grind / black / death group Wake. As Thought Form Descent doesn’t hit the street for a few weeks, and as of yet, we have no review. Spencer and Andrew have obviously been enjoying some promo copies, though, so perhaps you can expect a review in the near future.

As always, be sure to have a listen to the staff-curated Spotify playlist below, and share your own playlist in the comments. While you’re at it, in light of recent events, share with us your favorite anti-Christian and / or Satanic metal song. Personally, I love the meat-headed groove of Venom’s “In League with Satan”. Until next month, you all take care of yourselves, and don’t stare too long into the shit abyss.

• Captain
  Radiohead – albums
  The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention
  Napalm Death – albums
  Vinterland – Welcome My Last Chapter
  Sepultura – Beneath the Remains
  Ludicra – The Tenant
• Andrew Edmunds
  Immolation – Acts Of God
  Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
  Roxy Music – Siren
  Wake – Thought Form Descent
  Kreator – Terrible Certainty
  Savatage – Gutter Ballet
• Danhammer – Obstkrieg
  Lathe – Tongue of Silver
  Exocrine – The Hybrid Suns
  Napalm Death – Diatribes
  Dreadnought – The Endless
  The Dismemberment Plan – Change
  Nduduzo Makhathini – In the Spirit of Ntu
• Spencer Hotz
  Wake – Thought Form Descent
  Defect Designer – Neanderthal
  Knoll – Metemperic
  Suffocation – Souls To Deny
  Intestine Baalism – An Anatomy Of The Beast
  Deceased – Surreal Overdose
• Lone Watie
  OU – One
  Caravellus – Inter Mundos
  Napalm Death – Harmony Corruption
  Ben Marc – This Time Next Year
  London Odense Ensemble – Jaiyede Sessions, Volume 1
  Roy Buchanan – Roy Buchanan
• Zach Duvall
  EPMD – Strictly Business
  Nas – Illmatic
  Pissed Jeans – Hope for Men
  The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention
  Cannibal Corpse – Gore Obsessed
  Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation
• Dave Pirtle
  Darkane – Inhuman Spirits
  Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion
  Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation
  Jimmie’s Chicken Shack – Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
  Downset – Maintain
  Tungsten – Bliss
• Jeremy Morse
  Edge of Sanity – The Spectral Sorrows
  Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back to Life
  Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill
  Scorpions – Blackout
  Whitesnake – Whitesnake
  Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
• Ryan Tysinger
  Death – The Sound of Perseverance
  Cynic – Ascension Codes
  Emissary – Emissary
  Vilespawn – Rotting Apparitions
  Cannibal Corpse – Gallery of Suicide
  Tomb of Alsiare – Engulfing Visions of Reidemer’s Ruin

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