Tag: Live
King Diamond – Songs For The Dead – Live Review
Ordinarily, I’m not much on live albums. For every Live After Death or Strangers In The Night or Live & Dangerous there are fifteen unnecessary catalog-fillers, most of them little more than a greatest hits …
Sunn O))) on a Stage – Two Hours of Transmutation
You don’t write a report on a Sunn O))) show. You try to write about what is today a unique kind of performance by established musicians who, at one point, decided to do something different, …
Incantation in Concert – Hell is Open for Tours
I’ve seen Incantation play live before – once at an open air in the Czech Republic, once in a big Vienna club while they were on tour with Bolt Thrower. The sheer, pure force that radiated from the …
Dead Meadow Concert Report – Pausing On A Sunday Night
You ever get that feeling when you’re listening to music that it’s a vessel for shutting out the world, leaving you in transcendence to just be here with the music for a while? It’s a …
Paradise Lost in Concert – The Plague Within Europe 2015
Paradise Lost needs very little introduction. They’re a band that has been on the scene long enough to release 14 albums and a near countless amount of EPs, singles and compilations, yet their line-up (outside of …
Jex Thoth and the Temple of Doom – Concert Report
Doing this write-up proved to be a harder task than I imagined. Between the personal stuff I had going on and the absolute butt-load of work and volunteering, I’ve had this nagging itch about the Jex …
Farewell Dearest Altar of Plagues, Hello Malthusian – A Tale of Irish-Balkan Union
It’s hard to write about a show when you’ve worked up such expectations of it that your head wants to explode. No, wait, I’m doing this all in medias res. Let’s start from the beginning. I …
Killfest Tour 2015 – When Sanctuary Met Overkill
It is with the fullest heart that I greet you dearest readers of Last Rites. It has been a while since I showed my figurative face around these parts, and I can truly say that …