Tag: Morbid Angel

Gateways To Getting Annihilated: Happy National Beer Day
To quote a great philosopher (who knows so much about nothing at all): “Beer: the cause of, and the solution to, all of life’s problems.” Here at Last Rites, we enjoy a good beer. And …

Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: March 17th – March 23rd
“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 …

Riffology – Morbid Angel’s “Day of Suffering”
Alright class, because I can’t seem to get enough lately, we’re going back to Morbid Angel for this Riffology. This time we will examine “Day of Suffering” from the band’s second album, 1991’s Blessed Are …

Riffology – Morbid Angel’s “Chapel of Ghouls”
Welcome back, ladies and gents. It’s time for another lesson in Riffology, and, as I intimated in our last lesson, we will be examining another track from Morbid Angel’s Altars of Madness, namely, “Chapel of …

Riffology – Morbid Angel’s “Maze of Torment”
Death is, to most metal fans, the most important band in death metal, but just as Judas Priest rivals Black Sabbath in its influence on metal as a whole, Morbid Angel rivals Death in its …

Best Of 2017 – Dave Pirtle: Blitz – The Expurgated Version (The One Without Venenum)
To say it’s been a rough year would be an understatement. I don’t even have to dive deep into the current socio-political climate. This is about ME, goddamnit. Hell, I’ve been so self-involved that I …

Best Of 2017 – Sessionsesesses’ Depression Downtime Explosion Project
How about this weather, huh? There is nothing happening this year that is more important to me than what a third of my country did to the rest of us, while another third sat with …

Best Of 2017 – Konrad Kantor: Naked, Ashamed, Abased
‘Tis the season for lists, and there is no shortage of them. Since it’s impossible to uncover every gem — those who feel they came close are surely bullshitting themselves — this is merely a …