Category: Features
Best Of 2017 – Sessionsesesses’ Depression Downtime Explosion Project
How about this weather, huh? There is nothing happening this year that is more important to me than what a third of my country did to the rest of us, while another third sat with …
Not A Creature Was Stirring, Not Even A Reanimated Corpse Stuffed Into Your Stocking
Well, you’ve almost made it through another year. Another year of life, death, love, hate, labor, boredom, politics and all the good, the bad and the ugly that ends up stacked to the rafters in-between. …
Last Rites Presents: DeathgraVe – A ThirTy MinuTe PrimEr
One of the more amusing grievances metal fans toss into the ring these days relates to our genre’s prevailing fondness for keeping most every branch cemented in the past. Truth: It would be tragic beyond …
Best Of 2017 – Konrad Kantor: Naked, Ashamed, Abased
‘Tis the season for lists, and there is no shortage of them. Since it’s impossible to uncover every gem — those who feel they came close are surely bullshitting themselves — this is merely a …
Best Of 2017 – Manny-O-War: You No Fit Touch Am
What can be said about this year of our Lord 2017 that is now (thankfully, in many ways) behind us? I am tempted to go on a political rant about the demise of our planet …
Best of 2017 – Dan Obstkrieg: For The Love Of Everything
For most of the year, I found myself thinking, “Huh, it hasn’t been a particularly great year for heavy metal.” Of course, I found myself thinking that while also getting busy listening to a whole …
R.I.P. Warrel Dane: 1961 – 2017
Christ, it seems like I’m writing one of these somewhere about every two weeks now… But here we go again. We all woke up this morning to terrible news: Another metal brother gone, this time …
Best Of 2017 – Zach Duvall: Recalculating… Recalculating…
Howdy. As the full team top 25 article stated, 2017 was a year of big shifts at Last Rites. It was also a huge year of personal change for myself, but you don’t care about …