Category: Features
50 Years Of ‘Black Sabbath’ & 50 Years Of Heavy Metal
Did heavy metal begin with Black Sabbath, or were the young Brummies behind that grim denomination simply the optimal vessels at that very moment for an entity perhaps as old as the Earth itself? Few …
Staff Infections – February 2020
Welcome, friends, to another edition of Staff Infections, wherein the Last Rites staff share what we’ve been listening to for the past month or so. And Christ on a pony, what a horrible god-damned month …
In Crust We Trust: Vol 13
Howdy, comrades! Welcome to the first volume of In Crust We Trust for 2020. Thanks to everyone who paid a visit to In Crust We Trust’s end-of-year double-feature back in December. If you were kind …
Diamonds & Rust: Sodom – Agent Orange
[Album artwork: Andreas Marschall] Gelsenkirchen, Germany, early 1980s: A young Thomas Such finds himself not particularly taken with the notion of spending a perfectly good life buried in the depths of the local coal mines. …
Revenant Marquis – Youth In Ribbons Review
Let’s go ahead and clear something up right now. If you like your black metal on the more polished side, or are looking for frostbitten riffs from the howling fjords of Norway, then just go …
Farewell To A King: RIP Neil Peart
[Beyond the Lighted Stage: Banger Films] Rush is for the nerds. Okay, sure, the band is clearly for everyone, but it’s hardly a newsflash to reaffirm the fact that, in a great many cases, people …
Staff Infections – January 2020
Welcome, friends, to the first edition of Staff Infections in 2020. You might have noticed we took last month off, and that’s because we thought you probably didn’t need another list-based feature to read alongside …
A Devil’s Dozen – Paradise Lost
“Sad songs say so much.” — ancient Eltonese proverb. WHY SO GLUM, CHUM? It’s said that art mirrors life, so then it follows that art is empty and largely meaningless without emotion, and then further, …