Staff Infections – April 2025

It’s that time again, friends: Time to see what kind of racket your pals at Last Rites have been shoving in their ears with a little feature we call Staff Infections. Everything still sucks here in America, so we’ll proceed to the music, post haste.

In fact, there isn’t a heck of a lot to talk about on the music front. The competition for album of the month was decidedly weak this time around. So, before we get to the big winner this month we’ll hand out some honorable mentions. Jozzsh listened to the entire Teitanblood discography, including the black / death group’s latest album, From the Visceral Abyss. Not coincidentally Josh has a review of From the Visceral Abyss that you can check out right here. Mr. Hams embarked on a similar journey into the Messa discography, and I’ll be damned if Isaac didn’t come out of it without a review as well. Issac’s take on Messa’s The Spin can be found here. That brings us to our champion this month, the venerable, but vital Cradle of Filth, with its fresh release, The Screaming of the Valkyries. Dan the man has a review for you aqui.

For our group discussion this month, in honor of Cradle of Filth’s victory, give us your favorite non-Scandinavian black metal band. For the record, Finland is not part of Scandinavia, and so Finish bands are eligible. Being honest, I barely give a shit about black metal outside of a handful of bands, and most of them are Scandinavian. However, I like most of the first-wave black metal bands, so I’ll go with the O.G.s: Venom.

Before we wrap up, be sure to listen to the staff-curated playlist just below, and be sure to share your own playlist in the comments. Until next month, you all take care of yourselves.

• Zach Duvall
  Cradle of Filth – The Screaming of the Valkyries
  Morbid Angel – Heretic
  Katharsis – Kruzifixxion
  Gorguts – Obscura
  Coroner – Grin
  TDK – ZHVK
• Blizzard of Jozzsh
  Teitanblood – Seven Chalices
  Teitanblood – Death
  Teitanblood – The Baneful Choir
  Teitanblood – From the Visceral Abyss
  Tower – Let There Be Dark
  The Chasm – Procession to the Infraworld
• Andrew Edmunds
  Alice Cooper – Killer
  Nektar – Remember The Future
  Putrid Offal – Sicknesses Obsessions
  Ramones – Leave Home
  Robin Trower – Bridge Of Sighs
  Coroner – No More Color
• Captain
  Mekong Delta – Kaleidoscope
  DOOM – Complicated Mind
  Forté – Stranger than Fiction
  Destruction – Release from Agony
  Forced Entry – Uncertain Future
  Deathrow – Deception Ignored
• Danhammer Obstkrieg
  Cradle of Filth – The Screaming of the Valkyries
  Panthalassan – From the Shallows of the Mantle
  Indopan – In Opulence
  Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution
  Sigh – Imaginary Sonicscape
  Satyricon – Volcano
• Isaac Hams
  Messa – Belfry
  Messa – Feast For Water
  Messa – Close
  Messa – The Spin
  Kesha – Animal
  Ulver – Shadows of the Sun
• Ryan Tysinger
  ZZ Top – Afterburner
  Thin Lizzy – Fighting
  Wolf Spider – Kingdom of Paranoia
  Voivod – Target Earth
  Gabestok – Med Freden Kommer Hadet
  Gabestok – Én gang rådden, altid rådden
• Jeremy Morse
  Vore – Lord of Storms/Dead Kings Eyes
  Immolation – Atonement
  Incantation – Unholy Deification
  Al Di Meola – Land of the Midnight Sun
  Shockwave – The Ultimate Doom
  Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness
• Lone Watie
  Frogg – Eclipse
  Chercán – Chercán
  IQ – Dominion
  Fungus Family – La Morte del Sole
  Ambrose Akinmusire – Honey From A Winter Stone
  Eric Dolphy – The Illinois Concert
• Seth Buttnam
  Disgorge – Consume the Forsaken
  Cerebral Effusion – Idolatry of the Unethical
  Regurgitated Entrails – Sickening Indulgence of Flesh
  Demonic Death Judge – The Descent
  Bombardement – Dans La Fournaise
  Hateful Abandon – Threat

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