Tag: Dream Theater
Best of 2021 – Lone Watie: It Helps To Know What You Got
When I sat down to work out an introduction to my best of list, I already had a long, loud list in my head of grievances and shames and laments. They’re certainly valid, most of …
Best Of 2021 – Dan Obstkrieg: A Map Of All Our Foolishness
Friends, if we’re being honest, I probably spend less than half of my overall music listening time with heavy metal. (This is what they might call a “reverse straw man,” whereby I provide you with …
Best Of 2021 – Zach Duvall: Rank And Tear Until It Is Done
Uh-oh. Hello. Hello again. I’ve never had as tough a time putting together a snapshot list of heavy metal albums as I did in 2021. Part of that is because I generally spend a lower …
Best Of 2021 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
Is it the human compulsion to list that truly sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? Until someone comes across a crudely scratched out “Top 20 Most Embarrassing Things Heard During Morning …
Staff Infections – November 2021
Greetings, dear readers, from the cursed gloom of standard time. It’s time for Staff Infections, the feature wherein we, the Last Rites staff, share what we’ve been listening to for the past month. Customarily, I, …
(The Return Of) The Proglodyte’s Bonepile: Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Queensrÿche And More
If you ask anybody who’s been reading Last Rites reviews and features for a while (maybe even back to the Metal Review days), it’s pretty obvious what constitutes our humble site’s wheelhouse: Traditional Heavy Metal, …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2019, Part 3
Welcome back for the last time! We know the almost uncanny quality of part 1 and part 2 of our discussions of our most anticipated 2019 albums left you agog, and that said agog state …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: March 25-31
“Album Of The Day” is a new Last Rites Facebook feature we started recently whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone …