Category: Features
Mercürio – Instinto Callejero Review
As sincerely as we’d like to hear and review (or even know about) every worthy heavy metal album to come down the pike, the Last Rites Crew begrudgingly accepted a very long time ago that …
Staff Infections – August 2023
Welcome, friends, to another edition of Staff Infections, our monthly examination of the Last Rites staff’s listening habits. Said listening habits have converged a bit more than usual this time around, resulting in five contenders …
We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 4
Well, here we are. The last hurrah. The final frontier. The last restaurant at the end of the universe. One more for the road. Goodbye, farewell, and amen. Hasta la vista, baby. Smell you later. …
Track Premiere: Egregore – “Birth Of Death”
[Artwork by Lev Y.S.] There have been quite a few bands from the Carcass school making some fantastic music as of late. While this year has been fairly quiet in that department, bands like Pharmacist, …
Death Metal Dossier – Remix
[Photo by Artem Sapegin] Welcome to Death Metal Dossier: Remix edition. Dark were the times in between our last published missive and the publication of this declaration. Men have battled. Men have lost. Men have …
We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 3
HaaaaammerFallllll, weee willlll prevaaaaiiiil. HaaaaammerFallllll, let us haaaaail. Oh, hello! Welcome! You’re looking magnificent as always. Great to see you. Whatcha got there? A 7-layer dip. Cool cool. I’ll just go ahead and put that …
Frig You Friday Presents: Frig You Fuzz – The Best Psych, Stoner, Prog, And Heavy Rock Of The Year (So Far)
As is tradition, every Fuck You Friday begins with: “Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world.” But as the keenest and kleverest of you eagle-eyed shit-shellackers out there have surely …
Diamonds & Rust: 35 Years Of Rigor Mortis
[Cover artwork by Cort Johnson] We’re always told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and of course, we still do. But the good news here is that this first Rigor Mortis album …