Category: Features
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025, Part 2
It’s time for Part 2 of Last Rites’ super-prestigious Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025. If you’re just now diving in, don’t forget to follow through to the first part, which you can find here. TEITANBLOOD …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025, Part 1
You may have noticed this, but it’s a new year. And what that really means is that there’s a whole new slew of forthcoming heavy metal records for us all to obsess over for the …
Staff Infections – January 2025
Happy new year, friends. Oh, who are we kidding? It’s a shitty year already. Fuck everything. Here’s hoping you and yours aren’t burning, freezing or still trying to put the pieces together from one of …
Best Of 2024: Andrew Edmunds: I Had A Good Joke About Predicting The Future, But You Didn’t Like It
Another year down, my friends, as we all race headlong towards our inevitable demise. And while 2024 for me wasn’t as awful as some of the more recent previous years, it certainly wasn’t all puppies …
Best of 2024: Lone Watie: Can You Give Me A Minute, Please?
Something at work got me thinking a little while ago about The Ant and the Grasshopper. The gist of the fable, of course, is get stuff done now or you’ll regret it later. Now look, …
Best Of 2024 – Isaac Hams: Silly Words For Significant Things
The end, yep. Here it is. Was it worth it getting to this point? With all the rigamarole of your personal life? You’re a mess. The world is a mess. Two messes intertwining like a …
Best Of 2024 – Blizzard Of Jozzsh: Welcome To The Machine! Wait, What’s He Droning On About?
Sup, devils? Exactly one year ago, I published my extraterrestrial-themed end-of-year recap featuring a plethora of little anecdotes and assumptions about green or gray beings in superbly-advanced spaceships, navigating their way throughout the infinite universe(s). …
Best Of 2024 – Chris C: Abyssal Tendencies
What. A. Year. Musically. And otherwise, of course. We dove headfirst into the ever-expanding soundscapes of Oranssi Pazuzu, Thy Catafalque, Ihsahn, and Blood Incantation. We retreated to our cozy corner where Sabbat, Judas Priest, Necrophobic, …