Category: Features
5Q5A – Shooting Guns: Instrumental Stoner Madness
Originally written by Ian Chainey Shooting Guns‘ Brotherhood of the Ram, LP number three for the Saskatoon instrumental stoner rockers slathered with a side of Canuck kraut, is dressed up in one of the best …
Six Thoughts: Devin Townsend – The Retinal Circus
Devin Townsend is a busy, busy man. Under the moniker of the Devin Townsend Project, he has released five studio albums in the last four years, most of which received intense critical and fan acclaim. …
Thanks For The Walloping, The Gates Of Slumber – Heavy Is As Heavy Was
“What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they …
One Grain Of Sand – An Interview With Luc Lemay Of Gorguts
originally written by Ian Chainey I wonder what Luc Lemay sounds like… After we set a time to talk, it was the only thing I could consider for the rest of the week. It …
Out Of Step Dispatches – September 2013
Originally written by Ian Chainey I first read the name Will Killingsworth researching Ampere‘s brain-blower All Our Tomorrows End Today. “Ex-Orchid, you know,” my buddy told me. Ooo, Orchid! I thought. The Amherst, MA outfit …
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 …
The Entombed Mixtape – Beyond the Blues
When they finally hang up their boots, there will be little doubt that Entombed will have left a complicated legacy. Their first two albums, 1990’s Left Hand Path and 1991’s Clandestine, are undisputed classics of …
A Devil’s Dozen – Slayer
Some bands need no introduction, and Slayer is definitely one of them. The scope of the band’s influence is nigh-on incalculable. Sufiice it to say that everyone that plays and/or listens to extreme metal owes …