Category: Reviews
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2024 So Far, Vol. 3
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up all the metallic greatness we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2024 So Far, Vol. 2
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up all the metallic greatness we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2024 So Far, Vol. 1
Hard to believe that 2024 is halfway over, but hey, that’s the inexorable march of time for you, right? As always, we here at Last Rites World Headquarters And Royal Order Of The Moose Lodge …
200 Stab Wounds – Manual Manic Procedures Review
From Maggot Stamp to Metal Blade in four short years, 200 Stab Wounds are – like Sanguisugabogg, Frozen Soul, and Undeath – riding a wave of seemingly renewed interest in simple slabs. Or perhaps the …
Wormed – Omegon Review
As a pretty avid gamer for the better part of 40 years, I see games… everywhere. And I mean everywhere. I can’t be in a park while playing an open world game without thinking I …
Sear Bliss – Heavenly Down Review
You know Sear Bliss, right? They bring the brass with class. They make bliss like this [snaps fingers as a demonstration of extreme ease]. They’re just like that famous old pirate joke: “These Magyars are …
Noxis – Violence Inherent In The System Review
[Cover artwork by Jerry Hionis] Here is a random drawing intended as a crude visual representation of Violence Inherent in the System: «» If you, like me, were lucky enough to grow up in Cleveland …
Lucifer’s Hammer – Be And Exist Review
Maiden-inspired bands are a dime a dozen. Rarer are the more directly inspired Maiden bands – you know, the ones that actually sound like Maiden – playing at a level as high as Chile’s Lucifer’s …