Tag: Pulverised Records
Funebrarum – Beckoning The Void Of Eternal Silence Review
[Cover artwork by Daryl Kahan] If you, like many of us here at Last Rites, are an ancient, or at least ancient-adjacent, then perhaps you’ve been listening to death metal for quite some time. For …
Astriferous – Pulsations From The Black Orb Review
[Artwork by Jason Barnett] I’ll tell you what, it was a lot easier being a death metal freak in the late ‘80s / early ‘90s compared to the 7,000 car pile-up that is the modern …
House By The Cemetary – Rise Of The Rotten Review
Ever seen one of those Jason Statham movies? I’m not talking, like, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels here, but one of his movies that has a title like “The Firefighter” or “Explosive 2” or …
Best of 2020 – Lone Watie: We Find What We Look For
Of course, in terms of human events, a year is an arbitrary construct. It isn’t a thing with agency. A year doesn’t do things. But maaaan, 2020 feels like a real life son-of-a-bitch, doesn’t it? …
Death Metal Dossier: Ripped To Shreds, Altar Of Gore & Tzompantli
Hello and welcome to yet another installation of Death Metal Dossier. Lately, we’ve actually had some notions to change the name and theme of this beautiful piece but we (Manny & Ryan) have been getting …
Ripped to Shreds – 魔經 – Demon Scriptures Review
A lot of people think there are few substitutes for seeing a band live. To counter that argument one can point out that there is a great substitute: listening to an album roughly the length …
Majestic Downfall – …When Dead Review
One of the most important keys to good doom – and minimal music of all types – is efficiency. It isn’t efficient with time, obviously, as doom is the metal most known for its drawn-out …
Bone Gnawer – Cannibal Crematorium Review
Until last year, Bone Gnawer was most notable as a collaboration between vocalist Kam Lee (ex-Denial Fiend, ex-Massacre, ex-Mantas) and guitarist Rogga Johansson. But Johansson departed in 2014 – presumably to form another seven bands, …