Staff Infections – May 2024

Greetings, dear readers. It’s time to see what your friends at Last Rites have been listening to, with a feature we call Staff Infections. The battle for album of the month is not particularly fierce this time around, with only two contenders. Captain and Lone Watie gave both King Crimson and Sabbat a push, but, sadly, with no overlapping albums, it was all to no avail. High on Fire’s new album, Cometh the Storm, fared better with two appearances, thanks to Dave Pirtle and myself, and that’s good enough for second place. Edging out Cometh the Storm for the album of the month crown is It Beckons Us All, from the ever-reliable Darkthrone. Mr. Heath has a splendid review for you right here.

As you might have heard, we lost the great Dickey Betts recently. I know the Allman Brothers aren’t even remotely a metal band, but Dickie, and Duane Allman made up one of the great dual-lead guitar teams in rock, at a time when having two lead guitarists was still somewhat uncommon. Dickie and Duane could both solo their asses off individually as well as synch up for some harmonized lead lines, and many a great metal duo has followed in their footsteps. So, in honor of Dickey and Duane, in the comments, give us your favorite lead guitar duos in metal, aside from Tipton / Downing and Murray / Smith, as those are kind of a given.

Have a listen to the staff-curated Spotify playlist below, and share your own playlist in the comments. I gotta go take an allergy pill. See you all next month.

• Zach Duvall
  In Solitude – The World, the Flesh, the Devil
  Pearl Jam – Dark Matter
  The Allman Brothers Band – Eat a Peach (RIP Dickey)
  Blut Aus Nord – Ultima Thulée
  Varathron – Patriarchs of Evil
  Furia – bunches
• Andrew Edmunds
  Marillion – Misplaced Childhood
  Dismember – Indecent & Obscene
  Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of A Madman
  Armored Saint – Delirious Nomad
  UFO – Lights Out
  Alarm! – Alarm!
• Spencer Hotz
  Opeth – Morningrise
  Cult Leader – Lightless Walk
  Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
  Cryptopsy – Whisper Supremacy
  Defeated Sanity – Passages Into Deformity
  Tideless – Eye of Water
• Danhammer Obstkrieg
  Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All
  Candelabrum – Transmutations
  Hashtronaut – No Return
  Morgul Blade – Heavy Metal Wraiths
  Void Column – Descend Towards the Abyss
  Malconfort – Humanism
• Isaac Hams
  Visigoth – Conqueror’s Oath
  billy woods – Terror Management
  Vestindien – Verdande
  Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy
  Blut Aus Nord – The Work Which Transforms God
  Convulsing – Perdurance
• Captain
  King Crimson – Beat
  King Crimson – Three of a Perfect Pair
  King Crimson – Thrak
  Sabbat – History of a Time to Come
  Sabbat – Dreamweaver
  Tragedy – Vengeance
• Lone Watie
  Coffin Curse – The Continuous Nothing
  Beaten to Death – Laat Maar, Ik Verhuis Het Bos
  Sabbat – Mad Gods and Englishmen
  King Crimson – The ConstruKction of Light
  The Cure – Faith
  Vijay Iyer Trio – Compassion
• Josh Heath
  Uttertomb – Nebulas of Self-Desecration
  Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All
  Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
  Exhumation- Master’s Personae
  Black Sabbath – Dehumanizer
  Agent Steel – Unstoppable Force
• Ryan Tysinger
  Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back to Life
  Vital Remains – Into Cold Darkness
  Korpituli – Pohjola
  Angel Sword – World Fighter
  Peer Günt – Peer Günt
  Brodequin – Harbinger of Woe
• Dave Pirtle
  High on Fire – Cometh the Storm
  Couch Slut – You Could Do It Tonight
  Tyr – Battle Ballads
  Iron Monkey – Spleen & Goad
  Karma To Burn – Appalachian Incantation
  The Lumberjack Feedback – The Stronghold
• Jeremy Morse
  High on Fire – Cometh the Storm
  Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All
  Devourment – Obscene Majesty
  The Obsessed – Gilded Sorrow
  Minor Threat – First Two Seven Inches
  Immolation – Dawn of Possession

Posted by Jeremy Morse

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