Tag: Earache
Best Of 2022 – Ryan Tysinger: Lifelong Journeys For Technicolor Vapors
First of all, forgive the self-indulgence. These words could be inscribed atop any list, any review, any critique; yet they beg to be uttered. After all, it’s a fundamental rule in critical writing: don’t use …
Diamonds & Rust: 30 Years Of Vader’s The Ultimate Incantation
[Cover art by Dan Seagrave] For a band named after a movie villain that tended to wax poetically about destiny, there sure was a coincidental amount of serendipity surrounding their proper debut album. But before …
Diamonds & Rust: The Accüsed – The Return Of Martha Splatterhead
In “Diamonds & Rust,” Last Rites looks back at classic albums from metal’s storied history. Some of those albums were big hits, and others are overlooked gems. All of them deserve your time and attention… …
Riffology – Bolt Thrower’s “Through The Eye Of Terror”
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, class is back in session. For this lesson in Riffology, we will be taking a break from Morbid Angel, but we will be returning once again to the year 1989 and …
Savage Messiah – The Fateful Dark Review
If you’ve worked in an office in the last decade or so, you’re over-familiar with the word synergy. That particular managerial buzzword is the process by which individual parts combine to form something greater than …
Hour of 13 -333 Review
Hour of 13 seemed to be a band on the rise following the release of its last album, 2010’s The Ritualist. On the strength of that release the band was signed to Earache Records, which …
Woods Of Ypres – Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light Review
To be perfectly honest, taking on Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light was a bit of a daunting task. Not only were there the questions over Woods of Ypres founder David Gold’s passing, but …
White Wizzard – Flying Tigers Review
It’s a given that everything new borrows and steals from the old, and while this platitude ought to liberate us critics from the tiresome debate over authenticity versus pastiche, there’s enough of a difference between …