Tag: Metallica
Metallica – Hardwired… To Self Destruct Review
If ever an album title accurately described Metallica’s past two decades, there it is… There’s no need to rehash in any significant depth those past twenty years, of course – if you’re here now, you’ve …
Battle Royal: 80s Metallica Vs. 80s Slayer – Two Bands Enter, One Band Leaves
If you’ve been a regular reader of Last Rites over the years, you know we’re pretty kind to the 80s. That has a lot to do with the fact that a number of us who …
Various Artists – Ronnie James Dio: This is Your Life Review
I don’t have to tell you how great Ronnie James Dio was, or at least I shouldn’t. His shocking and tragic passing in 2010 was a huge blow to the metal world. It had lost …
80s Essentials – Volume Ten
THIS IS IT! Volume Ten has finally arrived. And with it, so does the end of Last Rites’ 80s Essentials lists. We hope you’ve had as much fun reading them as we did putting them …
Through The Never And Back: One Roadie’s Journey Through Hell For… What?
Say what you will about Metallica in the new millennium, they’re not afraid of trying something new. Not content to release a mere concert film, bored as they were with the usual stage-to-screen transition, they’ve …
Metallica – Beyond Magnetic Review
Metallica just doesn’t understand how to stay in our good graces. By most accounts, 2008’s Death Magnetic was a very long-awaited return to form for the Biggest Metal Band in the World. The production was a …
Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu Review
To say that I don’t “get” Lou Reed would be an understatement. (To say that I don’t like Lou Reed would be a similar understatement, as would saying that I don’t ever want to hear …
90s Essentials – Volume Three
So here we are, back for more with Volume 3 of MetalReview’s 100 Most Essential Albums Of The 1990s. (If you haven’t been keeping up, click here for Vol. 1 and here for Vol. 2.) …