Category: Features
Best Of 2021 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
Is it the human compulsion to list that truly sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? Until someone comes across a crudely scratched out “Top 20 Most Embarrassing Things Heard During Morning …
Best Of 2021 – Top 10 EPs & Demos
While I’m sure professional maniac chefs like Gordon Ramsey have a VERY strict definition of what constitutes an appetizer, the average restaurant seems to have missed the memo. Look no further than the succulent burning …
Best Of 2021 – Our Album Art Favorites
No matter what your freshman English teacher once told you when she caught you sneaking Once Upon the Cross in one ear instead of listening to her drone on about Keats, heavy metal is music. …
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, …