Category: Reviews
Dyoxidon – The Decaying Multiverse Review
Here’s a question: does an artist owe you anything? Should they consider you, the potential audience, when creating their art? Do they have an obligation to teach you how to experience their art? And here’s …
Blast RItes: Vomi Noir – L’Innommable Remugle Et La Mélopée Cavernuleuse Des Râles Agoniques Review
Somewhere towards the beginning of the long line of teachers who are disappointed in what I’ve done with my life, there’s one who attempted to teach me French, starting in my earliest school days. For …
Found Sounds And Frig You Friday, Vol. 6
Fuck me, there is a LOT of music out in the world. Readers, friends, partisans: I do not know where thoughts come from. I had thought to open this column with Shakespeare, as if disguised …
Suotana – Ounas I Review
Suotana is a Finnish melodic death metal band that I, and many others, discovered after the release of their sophomore effort, Land of the Ending Time, in 2018. I was on a Children of Bodom …
Triumpher – Storming The Walls Review
Has anyone ever asked you the seemingly basic question, “Why do you like heavy metal?” Sometimes that question comes from a place of disgust, as in, “How can you listen to all that noise?” Sometimes …
Rotten Sound – Apocalypse Review
As I was winding up to write this review, I ran into one of my fellow Last Rites scribblers by the coffee machine in the break room. Turns out, he had been listening to this …
Devangelic – Xul Review
[Cover art by Nick Keller] “THERE IS NO DANA, THERE IS ONLY ZUUL!” Sure, Devangelic spell it a little differently for album number four, and while they aren’t busting any ghosts on Xul, they do bust …
Ihsahn – Fascination Street Sessions Review
The Fascination Street Sessions EP is the most immediately satisfying material Ihsahn’s nailed his name to since 2016’s Arktis. That’s the tweet. That’s the status update. That’s the myspace post. That’s the friendster request. If …