Tag: Thrash
Egregore – It Echoes In The Wild Review
To tell you about Egregore’s second album, I’d like to first talk about wildness. If you traipse back to heavy metal’s origins, it was about wildness, right? “Helter Skelter,” Blue Cheer’s take on “Summertime Blues,” …
Monstrosity – Screams From Beneath The Surface Review
[Cover art by Timbul ‘Bvllmetalart’ Cahyono] Here’s the logline on Screams from Beneath the Surface, the seventh full-length album from Florida mainstays Monstrosity: it’s a calorically dense slab of death metal that doesn’t even attempt …
Cryptic Shift – Overspace & Supertime Review
[Cover art by Jesse Jacobi] A recent conversation among friends – all current or former Last Rites writers – discussed Opeth’s (in)famous song “Black Rose Immortal,” and its merits and pitfalls. Some friends love the …
Invictus – Nocturnal Visions Review
[Cover artwork by Juanjo Castellano] I dove into Nocturnal Visions – Invictus’s sophomore effort – having heard zero seconds of the Japanese death metal band’s debut, The Catacombs of Fear. In some ways, it’s an …
Kreator – Krushers Of The World Review
[Album artwork by Zbigniew Bielak] Since at least 2012’s Phantom Antichrist, Kreator has been an arena metal juggernaut. No matter how one feels about the releases that followed, we can agree that record, for better …
Coroner – Dissonance Theory Review
Within the context of human lives, 32 years is a pretty long goddamn time. That’s basically a third of a really long life, so you’d expect people to change quite a bit over that time. …
Graveripper – From Welkin To Tundra Review
[Cover art by Adam Burke] Indianapolis’ appropriately named Graveripper is a combination of two of my favorite things: extreme metal and Hoosier hostility. Now, the black thrash ‘n’ roll outfit has been heavily covered here …
Testament – Para Bellum Review
[Cover art by Eliran Kantor] Thrash metal is a young man’s game. Glance across the genre’s 40-plus years of history and you’ll find that the vast majority of great albums were released when the musicians …