All posts by Captain

Last Rites Co-Owner; Senior Editor; That was my skull!

Crypt Sermon – Out Of The Garden Review

EPICUS DOOMICUS INTROICUS Doom is a unique faction of metal. It’s been around since day one, thanks to Iommi & crew, but most all of its subsequent off-shoots have remained mostly neglected when compared to

Captain’s Best Of 2014: Relentless, Paranoid, Volcanic Lust

2014 was a year of escapism for me. Hell, who am I kidding – every year is a year of escapism for me. Anything to get me off this planet for a while. Anything that

Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen Review

Hey, I’m not gonna lie. The money’s good. Hell, the money’s great. Why, just last week I took my Last Rites paycheck down to the local BMW dealer and bought a brand new i8 for

Nuclearhammer – Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer

Hellhammer begat Blasphemy begat Angelcorpse begat Nuclearhammer. Goodbye, cruel world. If the idea of having your reality ravaged and flattened to soot by music yanks your crank, Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer is your ticket to ride

Viathyn – Cynosure Review

One of the key reasons a number of us writers remain in a game that’s bloated to obesity with enough metal blogs to choke nearly every horse currently galloping this green Earth is because every

Swallowed – Lunarterial Review

<a href=”http://swallowed.bandcamp.com/album/lunarterial” data-mce-href=”http://swallowed.bandcamp.com/album/lunarterial”>Lunarterial by Swallowed</a>

Sólstafir – Ótta Review

“We must use time as a tool, not a couch.” – John “What the” F. Kennedy The above quote is relevant to Ótta for a couple reasons. First, as some of you are likely already