Is It Worth It? – YOB’s Catharsis: Masters of the Remaster Debate the Reissue
On November 12th, Profound Lore reissued YOB’s sophomore full-length Catharsis nearly ten years to date of its original release. With a spiffy sound courtesy of Tad Doyle and a much-needed art design update thanks to people with functioning eyeballs, Catharsis 2.0 looks …
Keep it Short, Stupid- EP Round-Up: November 2013 Part 1
Trying to keep up with all of 2013’s releases is like committing to a filthy second job. Well, your old pals here at Last Rites are ever-so willing to walk directly into the line of …
Keep It Short, Stupid – EP Round-Up: November Part 2
Heavy metal’s highway is stacked ten miles deep with bumper-to-bumper short-player traffic in 2013, and we’re doing our best to pick through the releases most likely to land on our readers’ collective radar. Here’s round …
Things That Go Blargh In The Night – Songs That Scare Our Scribes
Our friends, coworkers, and subway-squinters-at-our-patches all say the same thing: “Metal? You like scary music.” Like every cut pumping through our cans is nothing but a game of Candyman. To them, we’re frittering away our …
A Devil’s Dozen – Type O Negative
All bands (well, most) strive to carve a unique identity for themselves, hoping to notch an eternal scar in their little thread of history. Few succeed. Fewer still can boast that they carved their name …
A Devil’s Dozen – Morbid Angel
Let’s get this out of the way: Morbid Angel shat the bed thoroughly with its last album, the title of which we shall not bother to mention. However, rather than reflect on how the mighty …
Keep It Short, Stupid – EP Round-Up: October 2013
The Extended Play has a long and rich history in heavy metal music, particularly within the underground realms. From Deathcrush and Apocalyptic Raids to Pieces and even Breeding Death, countless great and legendary careers have been started by or greatly …
A Devil’s Dozen – (The Lord Weird) Slough Feg
(The Lord Weird) Slough Feg has been a perennial favorite around Last Rites for eons and eons, so as briefly wrenching as it was to relinquish one of “our” bands to the wider world, even …