Category: Features
Whose Fist Is This Anyway? – 20 Years of Prong’s Cleansing
When it was brought to my attention that Prong‘s Cleansing recently turned 20 years old, my mind was pretty much blown. See, 1994 was also the year that I started to identify myself as a …
5Q5A – Monolord
originally written by Craig Hayes You know how it goes. One of your pals recommends a band, and then you duly hate that person, wishing you could change time and claim the title of recommender. …
Still Rotting – An Interview With Obituary
originally written by Juho Mikkonen Our 80s interview train makes it next stop at somewhere in Florida, where we invested a considerable chunk of the Last Rites pension fund in securing a very nice piece …
Mainstreaming Metal – Part 1: Failure
originally written by Craig Hayes This is the first 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 – Tengger Cavalry
What do you have in common with a successful Chinese graphic designer and composer for CCTV? You both love metal. If the two of you are wires, metal is the filament. And, the burst of …
5Q5A – La Chinga
originally written by Kyle Harcott Waxin’ sticks with the greasiest riffs since ’76, Vancouver’s La Chinga roll it up tight and smoke it loose. Cosmic-birthing some of the rockinest psychedelic space jams, the Rain City …
80s Essentials – Volume Six
Welcome to part six of The Most Essential Albums of the Eighties. Previous volumes are available here. This week’s edition is another smorgasbord of metal styles, featuring classic doom, ground-breaking death metal, foundational Norwegian black …
The Last Rites’ Podcast – Featuring Mike Scalzi Of Slough Feg
Oh, we knew you missed the sound of writers talking about music. That plucked and flicked eyelash was totally for us. Screaming “POD RITES!” three times into the mirror? That too. How could we not …