Tag: Queensryche
Best Of 2022 – Andrew Edmunds: An Antonym For Synonym Is Antonym, But A Synonym For Antonym Is The Opposite
As of the first week of December, it’s been fifteen years since I started writing for Last Rites — which wasn’t called Last Rites then, if you remember. (And if you don’t, then it’s irrelevant, …
Best Of 2022: Captain – Death Is Not My Enemy
[Content advisory: The following article contains an in-depth and intimate account of the loss of a loved one. If you believe the reading could be traumatizing, you may wish to forgo it.] A handful of …
Best Of 2022 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
I have spent the better part of a full morning kicking over rocks in all the corners of my brain in an attempt to recall any sort of crucial trends, significant controversies or major Pants-Filling …
Queensryche – Digital Noise Alliance Review
Not to be too presumptuous, but it must feel great to be Michael Wilton and Eddie Jackson these days. For decades now, they’ve dedicated themselves to making some of history’s greatest progressive metal under the …
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 …
Best Of 2019 – Andrew Edmunds: One Bird Cannot Make A Bad Pun, But Toucan
And so another year passes, the inexorable march of time… In the grand scheme of things, 2019 was a pretty good year for me, and I hope the same for you. I drank many good …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: June 9th – June 15th
“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 …
(The Return Of) The Proglodyte’s Bonepile: Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Queensrÿche And More
If you ask anybody who’s been reading Last Rites reviews and features for a while (maybe even back to the Metal Review days), it’s pretty obvious what constitutes our humble site’s wheelhouse: Traditional Heavy Metal, …