Category: Features
Best Of 2024 – Zach Duvall: Gorge Thyselves On Goop
Hello and greetings, friends and frenemies, and welcome to my personal rundown of heavy music in 2024. I think this year we’re going to mostly dive right into things instead of spending a lengthy amount …
Best Of 2024: Captain – Can Your Rover Do Any Sweet Kickflips, Bro?
I anthropomorphize things too much. Not always to the point of birds with arms throwing deuces my way for rocking a Napalm Death longsleeve from 1991, but in varying degrees of that high water mark. …
Best Of 2024 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
Hi-de-ho, neighbors! Here we are! The closing ceremonies for 2024. Remarkable survival skills, friends. Let’s see some hearty pats on the back, and let’s take some time to reflect on all the good that’s happened …
Best Of 2024 – Top 10ish EPs & Demos
Hello and welcome back to yet another Last Rites List Season (copyright pending). Today we present our annual delve into our favorites of The Short Stuff: extended plays (that’s what EP stands for), 7-inch splits, …
Best Of 2024 – Our Album Art Favorites
So, the thing about art is… it’s weird, right? Music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, yodeling, all of it. A human urge to express the inarticulable? Sure, grandpa. A desperate attempt to wrest some sort of …
We Have The Power – The Top 25 Power And Power-Related Albums Of 2024
“You mock my pain!” “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” We Have the Power is a unique pain. One of life’s good pains, fortunately—like soreness from some good exercise. It …
A Devil’s Dozen – Cannibal Corpse
Simply put, Cannibal Corpse is one of the greatest death metal bands ever. Period. End of story. They may not be on your personal Mount Rushmore of the best, but discussing the genre’s history and …
Diamonds & Rust: Cryptopsy’s Blasphemy Made Flesh Celebrates 30 Years Of Getting Thrown Out Of Windows
[Cover art by Dragon Design (RIP)] Developed From Memories of Blood By 1994, death metal was a firmly established genre with expected parameters in place for what did and did not qualify. In fact, one …