Tag: Dio
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: July 7th – July 13th
“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: June 16th – June 22nd
“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 …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: May 20th – 26th
“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 Cover Art Tournament: The Fatal Four
In the NCAA Tournament, the Final Four is treated as a kind of Mount Rushmore for that season of college basketball. All year, analysts talk up great teams, but will temper their hype with phrases …
Jimmy Bain (1947 – 2016)
I’m a bassist, so I’ve heard roughly seventeen trillion jokes about our kind being the forgotten ones. I’ve seen the meme about the correlation between your instrument and the amount of girls each musician can …
80s Essentials – Volume One
We are at it again. Having previously compiled the 100 Most Essential Albums of both the 1990s and the 2000s, the Last Rites staff set its sights on that golden age of heavy metal, the …
A Devil’s Dozen – Ronnie James Dio
In a minor shift of format, this Devil’s Dozen edition will focus not on the work of one band, but on the work of one man in several bands. That man? The man: Ronnie James …