Category: Features
Best Of 2018 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
You’re here! Welcome! So glad you could make it. So, how was the flight? Wait, what? You walked here? All the way from January 1st? You walked here all the way from January 1st. Wow. …
Best of 2018 – Top 10 EPs and Demos
Last year it was caviar, Peter Dinklage, Ant-Man, and American League MVP Jose Altuve. This year it’s mini-Cokes (cutest among sodas), relatively short and possible GOAT quarterback Drew Brees, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and… American League MVP …
Best Of 2018 – Our Album Art Favorites
Although we spend the majority of our time begging that listeners consider above all else the music contained within an album, we can sometimes be found discussing the artwork that adorns an album cover or …
Medieval Demon – Medieval Necromancy Review
Fast Rites: because sometimes brevity is fundamental. On the Bathory Album Spectrometer Scale (patent pending), Greek black metal tends to fall between the Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart points of reference, known largely for big, …
We Have The Power! — The Top Twenty Power (And Power-Related) Albums Of 2018
News flash: Last Rites loves lists. Hell, we might as well refer to ourselves as List Rites come December because by then we’ve already spent weeks compiling lists, comparing lists, tweaking lists and, most importantly, …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: November 25th – December 1st
“Album Of The Day” is a Last Rites Facebook feature we started whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone chooses to …
Sweet!? You Bet Your Sweet Ass…
Nobody knows who Sweet were or what they were doing. Sorry, I can’t look at pictures of Sweet without thinking of Spinal Tap. In discussing the interchange between hard rock and heavy metal, there are …
Deth Crux – A Title Track Premiere And Review Of Mutant Flesh
If you haven’t gotten the memo yet, you should know that the fine, handsome and well-educated folks at Last Rites really enjoy some high-quality deathrock. It also seems like Los Angeles, for all its eternal …