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Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2026, Part 3

We’re covering some of our most anticipated albums of 2026 all week. This is the third part of this series. The first is located HERE and the second HERE. GORGUTS – TBA It’s been 13

Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2026, Part 2

We’re covering some of our most anticipated albums of 2026 all week. This is the second part of this series. The first is located HERE. IMMOLATION – DESCENT Not too long after 2025’s balls dropped

Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2026, Part 1

Greetings and welcome back, readers and friends. We know you’re still recovering from about 10 tons of 2025 year-end lists, but there truly is no rest for the wicked, and we’re hopping right into 2026

Best Of 2025 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25

LET’S GET READY TO FUMBLLLLLLE!! Did we fumble? Sure, there’s about as much stylistic distance between our top two albums as possible, but that’s hardly a fumble. Last Rites has always been a little scattershot

Best Of 2025 – Top 10 EPs & Demos

The EP is dead!!! Ok, EPs are not dead, but any consensus of what is or is not an EP or demo certainly is. For starters, my dumbass cast a vote for РЛБ30011922 by 夢遊病者

Best Of 2025 – Our Album Art Favorites

As the (Western Christocentric) world is presently drowning in the pablum of commercial Christmas music and with weeks yet to go, let us instead come together to celebrate the weird and wonderful world of Heavy

A Tribute To Deathofthesun – Rest In Peace, Warren Binder

[Pictured above: Konrad Kantor (left), Warren Binder (right)] Here’s a sentiment I’m guessing is shared by quite a number of people out there: I first met Warren Binder at a metal festival, and what I

A Devil’s Dozen – The Original Black Sabbath

For as long as I’ve been a fan of this wild, wonderful world of heavy metal, I can remember two discussions (that inevitably become two arguments), ones that never seem to get resolved. The first