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13 min read 2022-01-03 18:00:59

Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2022, Part 1

Well, here we are. It’s 2022. Remember Y2K? That disaster-that-wasn’t passed us by 22 short years ago now. Remember the epic fustercluck that was

1 min read 2021-11-15 19:19:08

Bryan Eckermann, of such acts as Scars of the Flesh and Wings of Abaddon, is something of a multi-instrumentalist. In the aforementioned bands, for

1 min read 2021-11-09 23:31:41

So you just endured a long, soul-killing week of nonstop 4.0s at the AMG Forced Labor Emporium and need to get away from a certain cadre of

2 min read 2021-04-30 20:16:35

Here’s a nice way to bring the month of April to a close: At the Gates have premiered “Spectre of Extinction,” the first single from their new

3 min read 2021-04-23 02:46:05

- April 22nd, 2021 – Z2 Comics, the leading publisher of music-inspired graphic novels, reveals this fall’s jewel in the crown of the

3 min read 2021-04-23 00:52:21

King Diamond is so theatrical his name might as well be Stephen Sondheim. And his in-fuckin’-credible 1987 sophomore solo outing, Abigail, tells a

9 min read 2021-03-30 23:00:11

King Diamond performing in 2013. Photo by Cecil, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons I wonder if

2 min read 2021-02-17 05:30:00

Do you want heavy? Super7 gives you heavy! Emerging from the darkest corner of heavy metal is the legend King Diamond! As one of heavy music’s

3 min read 2021-02-11 00:01:54

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little afraid of picking up the new Crystal Viper. Having never let me down, the band’s 2019 release, Tales

2 min read 2021-02-04 22:08:37

King Diamond is not letting the pandemic or age (he is 64) slow him down. The singer is currently working on new music for both his eponymous band

1 min read 2021-01-14 06:09:45

The Super7 x King Diamond venture continues with the new 3.75-inch ReAction figures. The King Diamond – First Tour 3.75″ ReAction Figure

9 min read 2021-01-11 18:00:13

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

14 min read 2021-01-02 22:00:06

Twenty-twenty, right? Oh man, what a ti… oh, fuck this, 2021 is gonna start just as shitty. Deal with it. Instead of that bullshit, let’s talk

1 min read 2021-01-01 22:03:52

At the Movies, the Scandavian supergroup dedicated to covering songs from various film soundtracks, have released a cover of Boy Meets Girl’s

3 min read 2020-12-18 19:15:29

I can’t believe we never received the promo for Them‘s Return to Hemmersmoor. I mean, seriously, I’m their biggest fan! Even when their first