Keep It Short, Stupid – EP Round-Up: October 2014
Heavy metal’s highway is stacked ten miles deep with bumper-to-bumper EPs, demos and diversely-inched short-players. In an effort to help our readers navigate the traffic, we offer an ongoing and sporadic editorial designed to shine …
A Devil’s Dozen – Accept
With the recent release of Blind Rage, Accept finds itself three albums deep into a third act that sees the band enjoying creative and commercial success to rival its Eighties heyday, and putting on live …
A Devil’s Dozen – Godflesh
Godflesh, goddamn… Where should one even begin when describing this group? They are one of the absolute legends of extreme music, whose works shall withstand the test of time and who will always be ranked …
Grinding Down – 3 Quick Hits from the Bandcamp Abyss
[In the spirit of the recent round-ups of things you may have missed out on in the first half of 2014, the resident grindfreakers at Last Rites pulled together a quick write-up of a few …
The Best Of What You’ve Missed In The First Half Of 2014 – Part 5
It’s the last day of our Best of What You’ve Missed series: we’ve collected twenty-five albums that haven’t created much of a stir yet this year that we think you should hear before diving into …
A Devil’s Dozen – Darkthrone
Darkthrone, to black metal metal fans, needs no introduction. For the rest of you, here’s the quick rundown: Formed in the late eighties, Darkthrone began as a death metal band releasing several demos and the …
The Best Of What You’ve Missed In The First Half Of 2014 – Part 4
We’re winding down our week of albums that you might have missed so far, but we’ve still got some great music for you. Today’s five range from the extremely traditional to the outrageously avant-garde, so …
The Best Of What You’ve Missed In The First Half Of 2014 – Part 3
We’re back with more picks from the first half of the year that we don’t want to see disappear into obscurity in the back half of the year. The Last Rites crew had picked out …