Tag: Ascended Dead
Best Of 2023 – Ryan Tysinger: Lenticular Matters
It’s that time when the End Of The Year starts briskly shuffling us on out to the door and into the eternal night. You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. Last …
Best Of 2023 – Captain: Have You Heard The Good Word About Clunky Clock Radios And Power Metal, Brothers And Sisters??
I grew up in a very music friendly household. Both my parents were (and continue to be) music obsessive, and any time we were home and the TV wasn’t on, chances were pretty good you’d …
Best Of 2023 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
“HEY, WHERE THE HELL IS [INSERT ALBUM TITLE], YOU EMPTY-HEADED MONSTERS” We go through this every year, no? You see the Best Of lists begin to drop from all the usual suspects, and the first …
Ascended Dead – Evenfall Of The Apocalypse Review
Ascended Dead’s 2017 debut, Abhorrent Manifestation, ripped its way through a marked year for death metal. It was a favorite of the year for me: a riff-a-minute barrage with primal underpinnings of Possessed, Sarcófago, and Necrovore …
Best Of 2017 – Konrad Kantor: Naked, Ashamed, Abased
‘Tis the season for lists, and there is no shortage of them. Since it’s impossible to uncover every gem — those who feel they came close are surely bullshitting themselves — this is merely a …
Best Of 2017 – Manny-O-War: You No Fit Touch Am
What can be said about this year of our Lord 2017 that is now (thankfully, in many ways) behind us? I am tempted to go on a political rant about the demise of our planet …
Best Of 2017 – Michael ‘Captain’ Wuensch: Wise, Handsome, Dead!
Killed by death! No, this is not the ghost of me creating these words. Wait… Am I… Am I dead? Can you guys see me? What am I saying, of course you can’t see me. …
Best Of 2017 – Last Rites Combined Staff
2017 was a big year behind the scenes for Last Rites—the biggest since we switched names back in December of 2012. Ownership changed hands, which on the surface had zero effect on readers, but it …