Category: Features

Thanks For Nothin’ – Wait, No… Thanks For Everything!

“Do you hear the lurid call of the Wild Turkey? The furious gobble and the toileted hurl?” ~ James Fenimore Cooper It’s Thanksgiving in LastRitesville, USA, and some of us staffers are overwhelmed with enough …

A Devil’s Dozen – Motörhead – Volume 2

Welcome to part two of our Motorhead DoubleDevil’s Dozen. If you missed the first batch of thirteen, you can find it here. If after examining this batch, you find your favorite track did not make …

A Devil’s Dozen – Motörhead – Volume 1

The Last Rites staff would like to extend their sincere condolences to the family, friends and fellow Motörheaders who were lucky enough to have Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor in their lives. A champion has left …

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Paradise Lost in Concert – The Plague Within Europe 2015

Paradise Lost needs very little introduction. They’re a band that has been on the scene long enough to release 14 albums and a near countless amount of EPs, singles and compilations, yet their line-up (outside of …

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Fast Rites – Volume 5

Football, shmootball. The Cubs have gone down in flames, thereby proving that Back To The Future Part II is a work of fiction. Here are a few albums, both good and bad, for Cub fans to slit their …

Jex Thoth and the Temple of Doom – Concert Report

Doing this write-up proved to be a harder task than I imagined. Between the personal stuff I had going on and the absolute butt-load of work and volunteering, I’ve had this nagging itch about the Jex …

A Devil’s Dozen – Enslaved

Even on their earliest official release – the Hordanes Land half of the now-legendary split with Emperor – Enslaved were looking down a different path from that of their Norwegian Second Wave brethren. The longer …

Armored Saintly Revelations: One Night in Dayton

At several moments of his career, John Bush would have been forgiven for becoming a tad jaded and bitter. Armored Saint was ripe for crossover appeal, but they never gained as much success as they …