Category: Features
A Devil’s Dozen – Judas Priest – Volume 1
When it comes to bands that should need no introduction to metal fans, Judas Priest is near the top of the list. In terms of shaping the sound — and indeed, the image — of …
KK’s Best Of 2012: Fuck Hope And Godspeed
For the sake of brevity, I’ll spare everyone the details of what went on in my life this year, how the weather is, how I feel about current global economic difficulties, etc. etc. etc. Like …
Ramar Pittance’s Top 20 of 2012 – Creeping Death
Originally written by Ramar Pittance In 2012, the heavy metal “album” I listened more than anything else was a mix comprising only songs made before 1990. It’s a lot of stuff I consider to be …
Dan Obstkrieg’s Best Of 2012 – Reeling In The Dawn
At the risk of stating the embarrassingly obvious: There’s a lot of music out there, out in the dim distant land just outside our individual reckoning. And well, really, that’s a comfort. If you’re a …
Captain’s Best Of 2012: Driving Off The Spleen
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every …
Rae Amitay’s Best Of 2012: Here’s A Clever Title
2012 didn’t bring about the apocalypse, but it was still a tempestuous collection of days. Still raw from the loss of David Gold and my future in Woods of Ypres, I spent the first few …
Zach Duvall’s Top 20 Of 2012
Last year there figured to be about twelve or thirteen albums I was trying to shove into my top ten. This year there are easily eight or nine trying to wiggle their way into the …
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 …