Tag: Vultures Vengeance
Best of 2025: Chris C – Finding Renewal In A Cyclical Escapism
As cyclical as it is — the experience of being a listener of heavy metal — it is exciting, truly, how every new year brings a surprise or two or three. And it doesn’t have …
Best of 2025: Isaac Hams – The Big Short
Hello! Thank you for being here. I know you have a lot going on with work, family, responsibilities of many shapes, sizes and decibel levels. Taking five minutes of your valuable time to glaze over …
Best Of 2025: Blizzard Of Jozzsh – Your Anger Is A Gift
In these end-of-year recaps, I try to wrap up with an overarching takeaway that extends beyond just music. Last year, I parodied the idea of extraterrestrial life because it was dominating headlines. This year, I …
Best Of 2025: Captain – Ain’t We Lucky We Got ‘Em, Good Times!
“All good things come to those who wait” is a bit of an annoying idiom, but only if you interpret its meaning in a very passive and entitled way that amounts to, “Well, if I …
Best Of 2025 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
LET’S GET READY TO FUMBLLLLLLE!! Did we fumble? Sure, there’s about as much stylistic distance between our top two albums as possible, but that’s hardly a fumble. Last Rites has always been a little scattershot …
Vultures Vengeance – Dust Age Review
[Cover artwork by Lena Richter] Just last month I offered up Dust Age as one of my most anticipated albums of 2025, owed largely to the fact that the prior Vultures Vengeance album, The Knightlore, …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025, Part 2
It’s time for Part 2 of Last Rites’ super-prestigious Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025. If you’re just now diving in, don’t forget to follow through to the first part, which you can find here. TEITANBLOOD …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2022, Part 2
I’m sure by now you’ve all spent the last two days reading and re-reading the first part of our annual Most Anticipated Releases series, but in case you’ve just now crawled forth from beneath a …