We Slept, Nile Decided To Release A New Song For Easter About Sacrificing Humans
[Now that the day is over, file this one under: “Cruel LR April Fool’s Pranks.”] Yeah, that. During the hours most of us spent dreaming about what we might get in our Easter baskets—aka: jack …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: March 25-31
“Album Of The Day” is a new Last Rites Facebook feature we started recently whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone …
Last Rites Presents: Ask 2 Idiots
Welcome to another transformative edition of… Last Rites Presents: Ask 2 Idiots! In ancient times, the “village idiot” was a well-respected figure that played an important role not only in day-to-day life, but also in Victorian …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: March 17-24
“Album Of The Day” is a new Last Rites Facebook feature we started recently whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone …
R.I.P. Killjoy (1969 – 2018)
None of Killjoy’s various projects was destined to make him a household name, not in thirty years, but his importance to death metal belies his notoriety. He wasn’t universally well-known for the gory death metal …
Judas Priest Indebtedness Guest List: A Musician’s Perspective
We love Judas Priest. This is blatantly obvious, of course, as we’re winding down Priest Week here at Last Rites. But it bears repeating ad nauseam: We. Love. Judas. Priest. Guess who else loves Judas …
Last Pose Of Summer – Priest’s Fetching Fashions
By common consensus, Black Sabbath kick-started this entire thing called heavy metal. As such, not only did they set the goalposts for what heavy metal would sound like, but also many of its thematic and …
Judas Least: In Praise Of Filler
Welcome back to Priest Week! It’s a pretty universal opinion that Judas Priest is one of the most important, most influential, and downright greatest heavy metal bands in history. If you came here to argue …