Category: Features
Last Rites’ Best Of 2012 – Combined Staff List
First thing’s first: Welcome to Last Rites! Now, it might seem weird for a “new” webzine to be bursting out of the gate with a Top 926-or-whatever Albums of the Year list, but, despite appearances …
A Devil’s Dozen – Death
In the history of death metal, few bands, if any, loom larger than Death. “Evil” Chuck Schuldiner and his ever-changing cast of collaborators played an integral role in both forming the genre’s conventions and expanding …
At the Front Lines of the Cassette Invasion
Early reports can now be confirmed: the invasion is upon us. A long dead relic of the past has arisen, back to claim the throne it once sat upon. The cassette — that deteriorating, misshapen …
Resurrectionists – Ides Of Gemini Interview
Los Angeles-based trio Ides Of Gemini plays a satisfyingly homeless sort of music, wandering like it knows which way it’s going only as far as the next brazen footfall. The band’s eerily beautiful debut full-length …
Riffology 112 – Kreative Evolution: Part IV
Class is back in session with lesson number four in the Kreative Evolution series. In case you have been too hungover to make it to the last three classes, we have been engaged in a …
Release The SkyKrakken – An Interview With Corsair
Virginian quartet Corsair has consistently knocked our proverbial socks off — through two EPs and a full-length, this band has never garnered anything less than a stellar review here, never anything less than an 8, …
Riffology 112 – Kreative Evolution: Part III
Welcome to the third installment of Kreative Evolution, our riffological examination of the Kreator catalogue. If you have been following the series, I am sure you have caught the pattern, and it should come as …
A Monday with Moonspell: The Interview
The article was originally written by Rae Amitay. Back in May, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I was given the chance to ask Moonspell’s longtime vocalist Fernando Ribeiro some questions about the band’s new double …