Tag: Mercyful Fate
Demon Spell – Evil Nights Review
We’re gonna go ahead and get the most important point right out in the open: Evil Nights, the debut EP from Sicily’s Demon Spell, is almost entirely a work of tribute to Mercyful Fate. Yes, …
Melissa Is Still With Us: A Classic Turns 40
[Cover artwork by Thomas Holm] Many, many moons ago, on a notably cold night in late October, two teenage friends who’d recently had a falling out decided to bury the hatchet by hitting a haunted …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2023, Part 2
Round 2 of our most anticipated releases of 2023 has so very much to offer for most any sensible fan of heavy metal: horror, war, power, misery, redemption, toy recalls, and one of the most …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2022, Part 1
Well, here we are. It’s 2022. Remember Y2K? That disaster-that-wasn’t passed us by 22 short years ago now. Remember the epic fustercluck that was the year 2020? That’s 2 years behind us, thankfully, although not …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2021, Part 1
Hey, guess what, we managed to slip into our TWENTIETH year as a metal site under the shared banners of Metal Review and Last Rites. It actually happened at some point last year, but we …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: June 24th – June 30th
“Album Of The Day” is a Last Rites Facebook feature we started whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone chooses to …
A Devil’s Dozen – Mercyful Fate
You knew we wouldn’t leave you hanging for too long, yes? Halloween without King’s solo works would have been bad enough, but no Mercyful Fate? That’s like rock without the roll, a shot without the …
Last Rites Cover Art Tournament: The Championship
Friends, we have arrived at the end, and what a journey it was to arrive here. We saw a King of the Dead take out Ozzy and his Ultimate Sin. Metallica’s Puppets were no masters …