250 Top American Metal Albums For 250 Years Of America, Part 2
For the 250th anniversary of America, Last Rites is featuring 250 of the greatest American metal albums ever made, and here we are at Part 2, already. Please note that these albums are not ranked …
250 Top American Metal Albums For 250 Years Of America, Part 1
Hey, so, yeah, this nation is about to celebrate its SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL, which is a very fancy way of saying “America is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.” Needless to say, it’s sort …
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 …