Tag: Hardcore
Pit Therapy – 100 Demons: Horiyoshi’s Warriors
This month’s session is a tale of art as much as it is one of music. The band 100 Demons came onto the Connecticut hardcore scene in the late 90’s, after having chosen quite the …
Pit Therapy – Sick Of It All: It’s Clobberin’ Time!
That’s right, y’all. We’re back with the third installment of Pit Therapy, and this month we’re in the streets of New York City, the the most popular breeding ground for many of America’s favorite past …
Black Breath – Sentenced To Life Review
Seattle’s death/thrash/hardcore act Black Breath is back with full-length number two, Sentenced to Life. The band’s first album, Heavy Breathing, saw the band integrate a heavy Swedish death metal influence into the crossover/thrash sound it …
Pit Therapy – First Blood: Defenders Of Truth
In our first session of Pit Therapy, we discussed why Agnostic Front is both the greatest and most important hardcore band that has ever lived. In a sense, they’re a stone bookend that is holding …
Pit Therapy – Agnostic Front: Kings Of Hardcore
It should be no secret that we here at Last Rites want nothing to go undiscovered. Due to the fact that we’re faced with sorting through so much music, it’s become inevitable that classics might …
Nails / Skin Like Iron – Split Review
Nails’ Unsilent Death was something of a sleeper disc for me in 2010 – it made only a minor impact upon my ears in its initial release, but for whatever reason (read: my unfocused lack of …
KEN Mode – Venerable Review
Since the clamoring of the barbarians at the gates has become increasingly indignant about the tardiness of this KEN Mode review, let me tell you a little story about why you all should be utterly …
All Pigs Must Die – God Is War Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Although I’m not alone in feeling that the word “brutal” has been used to the point where you almost can never use it in a review anymore due to having lost …