Category: Features
Last Rites Cover Art Tournament: The Execrable Eight
Giants have fallen. With the round of eight — the Execrable Eight — if you will, giants have fallen. Three of the original four top seeds do not survive to advance to the Fatal Four, …
Last Rites Cover Art Tournament: The Sweet Six(66)teen
If it has not become abundantly clear already, the main purpose of this tournament was not necessarily to do a ride-along to the NCAA tournament, but really to honor the great visual side of heavy …
Last Rites Cover Art Tournament: Round of 32 – The Culling
Hello, friends. We hope you are enjoying our little dedication to the history of cover art in heavy metal. We hope it’s extra fun for you that we aren’t just writing about art we love, …
Last Rites Cover Art Tournament: The Brutal Round of 64
Heavy metal is many things, but being the world’s most brutal music is one of its chief roles. This is not to say that music of other styles can’t be brutal; anyone that has heard …
The Last Rites Cover Art Tournament: Metal March Madness
In heavy metal history, the visual imagery that goes on album covers has long been almost as iconic as The Riff itself. The work of a particular artist becomes permanently associated with a band to …
Fast Rites – Get Your Fix
We have lots for you to chew on once again in this installment of Fast Rites. For example, we have a holdover or two from late last year, plus a few reissues that are well worth …
10 for 10: Black Metal – Showcasing Spotify’s Best Bands with Under 100 Monthly Listeners
Hi everyone! I know I haven’t been writing a whole lot these past few years. I hope all of that is about to change and I know I’m the only one who can change it. …
Devils In The Mist – Overkill’s Groove Years
For years, on these pages and in myriad (often one-sided) conversations, I’ve opined that Overkill’s 90s and early 2000s forays into the then-modern trend of groove weren’t as embarrassingly off-base as those of most of …