All posts by Andrew Edmunds

Last Rites Co-Owner; Senior Editor; born in the cemetery, under the sign of the MOOOOOOON...

Anal Cunt – The Old Testament Review

Well, here’s that compilation of Anal Cunt’s early releases and rarities that you’ve all been waiting for, just in time for the holidays… Tragically, the world’s most intentionally abrasive band came to a screeching halt

Funerus – Reduced To Sludge Review

Funerus first emerged in the early 1990s, released a few demos and then vanished, resurfacing in 2003 with their first full-length offering, Festering Earth. In the eight years between now and then, long-time guitarist /

Death – Individual Thought Patterns (Reissue) Review

In its unenviable position sandwiched between the dueling masterpieces of one of the single most important bands in metal history, Individual Thought Patterns tends to get the short end of the proverbial stick. Thought Patterns

Morta Skuld – Through The Eyes Of Death Review

By and large, the works of 90s Midwestern death metal outfit Morta Skuld have been consigned to obscurity, a casualty of time and fading memory. The Relapse-released Through The Eyes Of Death is a compilation

Riot – Immortal Soul Review

Don’t look now, but Johnny’s back again… With Immortal Soul, Riot’s Thundersteel line-up reunites, some twenty-three years later. And with those words, probably about ten percent of you got really excited, and rightfully so, because

Vintage Hallows – Misfits

Really, what is Halloween but classic horror and the chance to be a punk? I mean, some kids dress up like ghosts by tossing a sheet over their head, and some dress up like witches

Immolation – Providence Review

If the ultimate goal of any review is to convince you, the reader, to acquire a record or not, then here’s all the review you need: “Providence is an EP that consists of five new

Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu Review

To say that I don’t “get” Lou Reed would be an understatement. (To say that I don’t like Lou Reed would be a similar understatement, as would saying that I don’t ever want to hear