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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 effort. Sometimes that context helps. …
[Cover art by Eliran Kantor] Thrash metal is a young man’s game. Glance across the genre’s 40-plus years of history and you’ll find that the vast majority of great albums were released when the musicians were in their 20s, or …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person within spitting distance of heavy metal on the internet in possession of some dumbass opinion about power metal must be in want of having their dumbass opinion challenged. My own dumbass …
[Album artwork by fleshflies] If Conan The Sumerian had pursued The Secret of Acid in lieu of The Riddle of Steel, Conan The Barbarian would have been a very different film. Like, eat shit, Wheel of Pain; so long, time …
And so we’ve come to the end of the road, and still we can’t let go… So here is the third and final installment of all the wonderful heavy records that snuck by us in …
It’s time for Part 2 of our yearly round-up of all the great records we didn’t manage to cover in the first six months of the year. If you also missed Part 1, it’s available …
Have you ever noticed how much music just rules? (Well, most of it, anyway.) We here at Last Rites World Headquarters And Lawnmower Repair Emporium certainly have. We’ve dedicated our every waking moment to listening …
Heroes! Adventurers! Bards, smiths, strumpets, tapsters, fools and ghouls! As the great Aragorn once famously declared in the back corner of a dimly lit halfling honky-tonk, “Let’s get into some mother-humpin’ trouble…” “YES!” Replied every …
[Cover art by Juliet Lacarne*] Postmodernism is a really wild thing to try to navigate in terms of art and music. Take Makeshift Crematoria, the first full length and third release overall for Californian duo …
Bloodlines is modern Pyramaze distilled—catchy and frequently poppy melodic metal, with faint hints of the band’s proggier early years. Granted, that won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, particularly those whose affinity for the band begins …
Untold ‘eavy metal bands have told tales of supernatural coercion, where some poor soul commits an unspeakable act after being tempted or tormented by a nefarious entity. However, none of us really need any other-worldly …
[Cover Art by Cameron Hinojosa] “Fires in the Fall? It’s June, you big dummy!” For some of you, releasing a warm black metal album best suited for sitting in solitude next to a roaring fire …
