Alright, friends, the world might be going to Hell in a handbasket, but that doesn’t mean you need be deprived of your monthly glimpse into the listening habits of the Last Rites Staff. In other words: It’s time for Staff Infections. Let us rejoice.
Having rejoiced, let us now see which album has seized the cherished prize of album of the month. First, the runners-up, three albums from two bands: A Forest of Stars with both Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes and Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface, and Emperor with the classic Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. If you know the Last Rites staff like I do, this month’s winner is no surprise. A disappointment, but no surprise. Neurosis has returned (minus one shithead, thankfully) with its first album in a decade, An Undying Love for A Burning World, and I’m sure the band’s fans are thrilled. I am not. However, If you need a second opinion, Craig has a review for you right here.
As usual there is a staff-curated Spotify Playlist for your listening pleasure just below, and we would be pleased if you shared your own playlist in the comments. For our group discussion this month, give us your favorite Neurosis album. I don’t have one. I was a pretty big fan of the group’s recent fallow period. Sadly, all good things must come to an end.
That’ll do for this edition. You all be good to yourselves and each other. If the world is still here next month, I’ll see you all then.
Zach Duvall
Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World
Neurosis – everything else
Twisted Tower Dires – Make it Dark
Egregore – It Echoes In The Wild
Fluisteraars – Dromers
Hällas – Panorama
Andrew Edmunds
Elder / Kadavar – Eldovar
Melting Rot – Infatuation With Premeditation
Black Crowes – Amorica
Emperor – Anthems To Christopher Walken At Dusk
Exodus – Tempo Of The Damned
Paul Chain – Master Of All Times
Van Morrison – Veedon Fleece
Wolf Rambatz
Ectovoid – In Unreality’s Coffin
Bitter Branches – Let’s Give the Land Back to the Animals
Corima – Hunab Ku
DBR – Unbearable
Tomeka Reid – dance! skip! hop!
Xylitol – Blumenfantasie
Danhammer Obstkrieg
Ignobleth – Manor of Primitive Anticreation
Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World
Raw Addict – Compulsion
Lividus – Scarabaeus
Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash – Pluto in Aquarius
Polygonia – Ceaseless Motion
Captain
Old Man Gloom – Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressionism
Old Man Gloom – Seminar III: Zozobra
Old Man Gloom – Christmas
Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World
A Forest of Stars – Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface
Ben Seretan & John Thayer – Sunbeam of No Illusion
David Fonseca
A Forest of Stars – A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
Archspire – Relentless Mutation
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron
Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Sodom – Tapping the Vein
Cult of Luna – Salvation
Isaac Hams
Callisto – Noir
Slayyyyter – WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA
A Forest of Stars – Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface
A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
An Axis of Perdition – Deleted Scenes From The Transition Hospital
Spencer Hotz
Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World
A Forest Of Stars – Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
Emperor – In The Nightside Eclipse
Cannibal Corpse – Kill
Sectarian Defacement – Hostile Consuming Rapture
Bekor Qilish – Consecrated Abysses Of Dread
Jeremy Morse
Iommi Watts – VIDETE CΛELVM (Watch the Skies)
Incantation – Unholy Deification
Black Breath – Slaves Beyond Death
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy
Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire
Lone Watie
Jakabol – Leornian
Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise
Deathrow – Deception Ignored
The Marshall Tucker Band – Where We All Belong
Nujabes – Metaphorical Music
Cal Tjader – Soul Sauce
