Category: Features
80s Essentials – Optional Retro-spections, Volume 1 Haiku
Greetings, time travelers. You all tuckered out from all this 80s’ metal nostalgia yet? Of course you are. We all are. Wait, no… I’m never tired of 80s’ metal. NEVER, I SAY. When others are …
Mainstreaming Metal – Part 5: The Pot Of Gold
originally written by Craig Hayes This is the final installment in a five-part series. In Mainstreaming Metal, LR scribe Craig Hayes looks back on his experiences as a beacon for underground heavy metal within the …
5Q5A – Dead Instrument
From the land of Kierkegaard and King Diamond comes Dead Instrument, a grindcore four-piece that peddles perfectly blistering blasting. Think the hyperactive razor’s edge of Discordance Axis meets the turbo-charged attack of Yacøpsæ, duking it out in …
Still Rotten to the Gore – Gorguts, Carcass, and Heavy Metal Commerce
Originally written by Jordan Campbell The 2014 Decibel Magazine tour concluded in Maryland last Sunday. It was a big deal. We should probably say something about it. Here’s the thing, though. Concert reviews typically shove …
80s Essentials – Volume Ten
THIS IS IT! Volume Ten has finally arrived. And with it, so does the end of Last Rites’ 80s Essentials lists. We hope you’ve had as much fun reading them as we did putting them …
Harbingers Of Pain, Possessors Of Power – An Interview With Whiplash
originally written by Juho Mikkonen Not many underground metal albums have been able to establish such a cult following as Whiplash’s 1985 full-length debut, Power and Pain (featured in the ninth installment of you know …
Mainstreaming Metal – Part 4: Hanging Hipsters
originally written by Craig Hayes This is the fourth installment in a five-part series. In Mainstreaming Metal, LR scribe Craig Hayes looks back on his experiences as a beacon for underground heavy metal within the …
5Q5A – Argus
originally written by Erik Highter In a just world, Argus would roam across the landscape, laying waste to every village they pass like the great rock gods of yore. Like Conan, they would crush their …