Tag: Black Sabbath
A Devil’s Dozen – The Original Black Sabbath
For as long as I’ve been a fan of this wild, wonderful world of heavy metal, I can remember two discussions (that inevitably become two arguments), ones that never seem to get resolved. The first …
Staff Infections – Summer 2025
Howdy, friends. I’m back. Apologies for the absence of Staff Infections these past few months. The rise of fascism has me in a bit of a crisis of giving a shit, and Ozzy Osbourne’s death …
Eulogy For A Madman: Rest Easy, John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne
Being actively online can be a terrifically strange thing to experience if you happen to be old enough to remember… the Before Times. This becomes imminently clear when misfortune hits because, if you’re like me—and …
WAR Masters – A Completely Serious Analysis Of Metal And Baseball
Happy All Star Break, folks. Or, if you aren’t a baseball fan, enjoy the least exciting week in all of sports, when very little is going on except ESPN’s incessant coverage of the same 10 …
50 Years Of ‘Black Sabbath’ & 50 Years Of Heavy Metal
Did heavy metal begin with Black Sabbath, or were the young Brummies behind that grim denomination simply the optimal vessels at that very moment for an entity perhaps as old as the Earth itself? Few …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: September 23rd – September 29th
“Album Of The Day” is a Last Rites Facebook feature we started whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone chooses to …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: August 5th – August 11th
“Album Of The Day” is a Last Rites Facebook feature we started whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone chooses to …
On Death – Grim, Inevitable Death – In Metal
There is a book of heavy metal. No one wrote it. It exists in the ether, in the songs and albums and album art and performances and memories of we who read it. It is …