Last Rites

4 min read 2022-05-20 17:00:32

Cave In – Heavy Pendulum Review

Replacing a band member is rarely a simple task, and it becomes an essentially impossible one when a replacement is needed because the original

2 min read 2022-05-19 17:00:23

Sick Sinus Syndrome’s debut Rotten To The Core wormed its way into my earholes on a regular basis right around this time last year, a blistering

4 min read 2022-05-18 17:00:12

Release date: May 8, 2022. Label: Black Water Records.Portland’s Rigorous Institution first hit my radar via the ever impressive efforts of Last

4 min read 2022-05-16 17:00:35

The great thing about heavy metal (apart from, well, most of the things about it) is how many different moods it can summon. From the most decrepit,

3 min read 2022-05-15 17:00:21

Greetings, friends. It’s time, once again, for Staff Infections, our monthly review of what us clowns at Last Rites have been listening to, often

3 min read 2022-05-13 17:00:52

[Cover art by fivetimesno]Animate the Emptiness, the first full length from New York’s Luminous Vault, is by definition a heavy metal album, and

4 min read 2022-05-12 17:00:29

[Photo by Nick Reece]Dear Trevor Strnad,Yours will be a voice sorely missed and for more reasons than some may realize. Through The Black Dahlia

3 min read 2022-05-11 17:53:15

[Cover Art by Elinor Kantor]As someone who has relapsed into a full-tilt addiction to video games, it is fascinating to find all the different types

2 min read 2022-05-09 17:00:29

History is important. Some old guy whose name I forgot* once said something about how those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,

6 min read 2022-05-06 17:00:22

[Cover artwork by Anne K. O’Neill]—The sounds of a heaving ocean joined by the familiar creak of a gnarled ship // An ol’ sea dog barely lit by

1 min read 2022-05-06 01:00:45

Fast Rites: because sometimes brevity is fundamental.Our beloved, or reviled depending on your opinion of puns, Andrew Edmunds has started an

1 min read 2022-05-06 01:00:45

Fast Rites: because sometimes brevity is fundamental.Our beloved, or reviled depending on your opinion of puns, Andrew Edmunds has started an

2 min read 2022-05-05 17:00:41

So the first question that comes to mind when I look at this absurd and kind of awesome cover art is: Is this a gigantic cobra… or a very smol

3 min read 2022-05-04 18:00:44

As Monty Python would say, and now for something completely different.Metal is a wonderfully massive umbrella term that covers an astounding variety

3 min read 2022-05-03 17:00:33

When I was in junior high, I had a music class wherein I had to “learn” to “play” the recorder. To say that I did poorly at that task was