Category: Features
We Have The Power – The Top 30 Power Metal (And Power-Related) Albums Of 2021
Hails and good fortune, heroes! Welcome to the launch of List Season here at Last Rites. As has become tradition, we kick things off with brand-spankin’-new edition of We Have the Power, our annual roundup …
Lucifixion – Feral Mass: A Black, Raw, & Bleeding Premiere
Salutations, Trav’lrs. The closing of the year is nigh, and the night hath brought with it one final gift, a closing sacrament before Last Rites begins its end-of-year rituals of reflection. This cursed gift is …
VHS – I Heard They Suck…Blood Review
Fast Rites: because sometimes brevity is fundamental. By naming their band VHS, these Ontario Nosferatu lovers have made it clear they have no interest in modernity and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. That being …
Flipping The Bird: Turkeys To Treasures
[Cover “artwork” shamefully done by Wobbly] Happy Thanksgiving, or Native American Heritage Day (tomorrow), or Eat So Much You Pass Out And Your Friends Play With Your Easy Bake Oven Day, or whatever. The interpretations …
Staff Infections – November 2021
Greetings, dear readers, from the cursed gloom of standard time. It’s time for Staff Infections, the feature wherein we, the Last Rites staff, share what we’ve been listening to for the past month. Customarily, I, …
Diamonds & Rust: Enslaved ‒ Mardraum ‒ Beyond the Within
Enslaved’s career is one defined by eras. They started as perhaps the most prodigious band of Norway’s second wave of black metal, releasing their Hordanes Land EP when guitarist Ivar Bjørnson was a mere 15 …
Mortiferum – Preserved In Torment Review
Fast Rites: because sometimes brevity is fundamental. Even using the most expansive definition, death metal is still not even 40 years old. And yet, on Preserved in Torment, Mortiferum plays the kind of death metal …
Last Frites’ Halloween Riffathon
🎶Hey everybody have you heard the news? Last Frites is back in town…🎶 Maybe it’s just because I’m from the South, but there are few things in this world with as much regional and cultural difference …