Category: Reviews
Nine Treasures – Seeking The Absolute Review
Hopefully you, like me, consider yourself an adventurer on some sort of level. No, not just as it pertains to, say, opting for pepper jack instead of your usual cheddar, but more in a way …
Forced Starvation – Forced Starvation Review
Aotearoa New Zealand grindcore outfit Forced Starvation call the world’s southernmost capital city, Te Whanganui-a-Tara (aka Wellington), home. As a fellow Wellingtonian, I can tell you that things are not exactly peachy in Forced Starvation’s …
Cemican – U k’u’uk’ankil Mayakaaj Review
The great and terrible thing about music is that anybody can make it. Literally, any body: right now, friend, you can tap your feet or hum a tune or pluck a rubber band and make …
Blindfolded And Led To The Woods – The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me Review
By way of Christchurch, progressive/technical death metal titans Blindfolded and Led to the Woods are creating some intriguing tunes. In fact, fellow Last Rites contributor Seth Buttnam compared their sound to that of their New …
Graveripper – From Welkin To Tundra Review
[Cover art by Adam Burke] Indianapolis’ appropriately named Graveripper is a combination of two of my favorite things: extreme metal and Hoosier hostility. Now, the black thrash ‘n’ roll outfit has been heavily covered here …
In Crust We Trust: Vol 32
Kia ora, crüe. Welcome back to In Crust We Trust. This semi-regular round-up focuses on crust punk, d-beat, stenchcore, raw punk, and every other Dis-charged subgenre. Artier punk occasionally appears, but in the main, ICWT …
Cathedral – Society’s Pact With Satan Review
For a band with a somewhat complex legacy, Cathedral really knew how to wrap things up with a very high quality bow back in 2013. The Last Spire was a heavy, deathly serious slab of …
Demiurgon – Miasmatic Deathless Chamber Review
Miasmatic Deathless Chamber is Demiurgon’s third album. And because I am not familiar with the band’s prior two albums, I had decided at some point that I would dig before I attempted to describe this …