Alright, kids, welcome to a somewhat belated and not particularly special Father’s Day edition of Staff Infections. If you don’t know the drill for this recurring feature, it goes as such: We, the Last Rites staff, share some music we’ve been listening to of late, and then hopefully you, the reader, are inspired to listen to some of that music as well, because we are all very cool, and you should seek to be like us in whatever small way you can manage.
There wasn’t much competition for album of the month this time around. Only one album showed up in more than one playlist, and that is Blood Money’s 1986 debut, Red, Raw and Bleeding! This obscure gem’s victory is due, in no small part, to our pal Ryan’s in-depth Diamonds and Rust feature, covering both Red, Raw and Bleeding! and Blood Money’s second effort, Battle Scarred. If you like blood, guts and speed metal, you can check out Ryan’s article right here.
For our group discussion this month, in honor of Father’s Day, let us know in the comments if your father or any father-like figure in your life turned you on to any good music. My father wasn’t a huge music consumer, but he had a handful of vinyl albums and a decent stereo to play them on. The album I was most fascinated by was Pink Floyd’s The Wall. I remember being perhaps more entranced by the album artwork than I was the music. However, I specifically remember sticking my five-year-old face into the speaker during “Is There Anybody Out There,” wondering if there was anybody in there. Anyway, The Wall taught me at a very young age that the world was frightening and cruel, and school was most definitely going to suck. Thanks, Dad.
That’ll do for this month. Be sure to listen to the staff-curated Spotify playlist below, and shore your own playlist in the comments. See you all next month.
- Zach Duvall
Intestine Baalism – An Anatomy of the Beast
Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Lav – A New Landscape
Yob – The Unreal Never Lived
Garoted – Bewitchment Of The Dark Ages
Blood Money – Red, Raw and Bleeding! - Andrew Edmunds
Skitsystem – Gra Varld / Svarta Tankar
Wolfpack – box set
Immolation – Dawn Of Possession
Morgoth – Cursed
Vicious Rumors – Soldiers Of The Night
Jag Panzer – Ample Destruction - Danhammer Obstkrieg
Manowar – Into Glory Ride
Crimson Dawn – It Came from the Stars
Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold
Gas – Nah und Fern
Bill Frisell – Blues Dream
Blue Oyster Cult – Fire of Unknown Origin - Spencer Hotz
Olkoth – At The Eye of Chaos
Darkthrone – Full Discography
Krigsgrav – Fires In The Fall
Rezn – Solace
Cradle of Filth – Trouble And Their Double Lives
Black Fucking Cancer – Procreate Inverse - Dave Pirtle
Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution – The Golden Age of Music
Masters of Reality – Sunrise on the Sufferbus
Winger – Seven
Jaldaboath – The Further Adventures…
AC/DC – The Razors Edge
Gloryhammer – Return to the Kingdom of Fife - Lone Watie
Anubis Gate – Interference
Scorpions – Discography
Jag Panzer – Discography
La Théorie des Cordes – 4U9525
Bo Hansson – Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings
Bill Withers – Discography - Ryan Tysinger
Transgressor – Ether for Scapegoat
Torchure – Beyond the Veil
Blood Money – Red, Raw and Bleeding!
Thromvosis – Proclamation of the Smegmatic Warcult
Tyrann – Besatt
Freeroad – Do What You Feel! - Jeremy Morse
Death – Leprosy
Death – Individual Thought Patterns
Gruesome – Twisted Prayers
High On Fire – Surrounded by Thieves
Judas Priest – Sin After Sin
Revocation – Existence is Futile - Craig Hayes
Church of Misery – Born Under a Mad Sign
Step to Freedom – S/T
Cancer Spreading – Deeper Down Once Again
Country Joe and the Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body
The Fall – The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004
Screamer – Target: Earth - Captain
Nocturnal Rites – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Manowar – Sign of the Hammer
Anubis Gate – Interference
Tarot – The Spell of Iron
Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book
Bark Psychosis – Scum
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Hail the Void – Memento Mori
Sermon – Of Golden Verse
Dorthia Cottrell – Death Folk Country
Fires In the Distance – Air Not Meant For Us
Dance With The Dead – Driven To Madness
Slayer – Seasons In The Abyss
My Dad didn’t listen to/play a ton of music when I was growing up, but he had a number of really good vinyl left over from his teenage years – most influential of which were Led Zeppelin I, II, and III. I also have a MAJOR soft spot for the original Point Break soundtrack (Ratt, Shark Island, LA Guns, Concrete Blonde, etc.) due to him as well.
Opeth – Blackwater Park
Sludge – Esoteric Malacology
Fen – Epoch
Alcest – Écailles De Lune
Emperor – In the Nightside Eclipse
The Ocean – Holocene
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Of all the music my Dad was (and is still) into when I was growing up, it was the 70s prog rock, and in particular King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Yes, and Hackett-era Genesis that has stayed with me. He even took me to see Tool because they had toured with King Crimson, so we found a point of convergence there. He also encouraged me to learn an instrument which was something he didn’t get the opportunity to do growing up.
Riot City – Electric Elite
Asphagor – Pyrogenesis
Ulfud – Of Existential Distortion
Bloodred Hourglass – Godsend
Edge of Sanity – Purgatory Afterglow
Vader – Dark Age
Fen – Winter
Aeternam – Al Qassam
Verikalpa – Tunturihauta
Lie In Ruins – Floating in Timeless Streams
My Dad wasn’t a big music fan but he did like a few bands, from all over the spectrum, including The Doobie Brothers and Joan Jett. Mainly he liked particular songs, based on what they said, not style or genre. I think his favorite song was “Take This Job and Shove It” by Johnny Paycheck. I think that song represented his feelings sometimes. Mine too.
Savage Master – Those Who Hunt At Night
Century – The Conquest of Time
Shadows – Out for Blood
Birth – Born
Strange Horizon – Skur 14
Mark Knopfler – The Princess Bride OST
My dad listens mostly to jazz and soft-pop, but I remember finding out about the Beatles and Rolling Stones from his vinyl stash.
Dungeonistic6- all and any songs
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
Slough- Demented Escape pt1
MURDERovCROWS- KILLING OF DREAMING
I was raised wrong by a Vietnam and (now) drug war veteran who sold pot mainly and listened to a wide range of rock. I was raised on VERY loud Nazareth- Hair of The Dog , Kiss, Van Halen an ZZ Top, Bob Seger, Ozzy, Three Dog Night and WLS AM RADIO OUT I
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