Tag: Listenable
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We’ve Missed In 2018 So Far, Part 2
Here at Last Rites, we listen to a metric shit-ton of heavy metal—it’s just what we do. But even then, every year, there’s so much great heavy metal that gets released that we simply don’t …
Lock Up – Demonization Review
On paper, Lock Up looks like a killer band. And it should be, in whichever of its four incarnations (so far) that you choose. It should add up to a sum greater than its parts, …
Satan – Atom By Atom Review
What happened in 2013 was not supposed to happen. The script never reads like this: “Long defunct band from great era of music reforms better than ever, topping their long-beloved classic material.” Typically, we are …
Undead – False Prophecies Review
Savage Land, the debut from Gruesome — Matt Harvey and company’s early-Death tribute band — has received quite a bit of hype. I even gave it some myself, and deservedly so, because the album is great. False …
Incantation – Dirges Of Elysium Review
Each snowflake supposedly possesses its own unique crystalline structure that differentiates it from all other snowflakes, but from a couple feet away you can’t tell one flake from the next: all you see is white …
Svart Crown – Profane Review
Better late than never, as they say. Despite Profane being released a few months ago, I couldn’t in good conscience let the third album by the kings of French blackened death metal Svart Crown go …
Satan – Life Sentence Review
Sorry metal devotees, it appears as if all the extremes have long been met. No one can get any faster, heavier, louder, doomier, thrashier, deadlier, darker, grosser, deathier, eviller, drunker, higher, more violent, more bearded, …
Incantation – Vanquish In Vengeance Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Incantation is a band whose name has been recognized for twenty years, but the strength of that name has been challenged by a smattering of lukewarm output and an ever-changing …