Tag: Thrash
Ripper – Towards Rebirth Review
[Cover art by Paolo Girardi] There are currently nine bands named “Ripper” listed on ye olde Metal-Archives, but it’s tough to imagine any of them earning the moniker as well as the boys from Chile …
Diamonds & Rust: The Rise And Decline Of Crossover – Just How Weird Was The Crumbsuckers’ Beast On My Back?
So, there’s a thing that happens behind the scenes at Last Rites HQ called ‘Sunday Funday’ where we each pick a random album for the LR collective to listen to during the week, and then …
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. …