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Last Rites » Death Metal
1M ago
Sup, devils? Exactly one year ago, I published my extraterrestrial-themed end-of-year recap featuring a plethora of little anecdotes and assumptions about green or gray beings in superbly-advanced spaceships, navigating their way throughout the infinite universe(s). So, this year, for the sake of NOT GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, I will refrain from discussing the New ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
2M ago
[Cover art by Dragon Design (RIP)] Developed From Memories of Blood By 1994, death metal was a firmly established genre with expected parameters in place for what did and did not qualify. In fact, one could easily argue that 1991 was the crowning year of it coming into its true form. A slew of unimpeachable ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
3M ago
If it has black and red cover art, I’m listening. So, that leads us here. A few weeks ago, I saw a little promo drop in my email inbox from the fine folks at Sentient Ruin, one of my favorite labels in the game. If you’re unfamiliar with this San Francisco-based entity, stroll through the ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
3M ago
[Cover art by Denis Forkas Kostromitin] Bands often telegraph when significant shifts in their sound are imminent. No one who truly paid attention to Ghost Reveries and Watershed was particularly shocked by the full dive into 70’s prog that Opeth would take with Heritage. Folks listening to Hidden History Of The Human Race and Timewave Zero weren’t only not surprised by Blood ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
3M ago
I wouldn’t say I like the thought of repeating cliches or reiterating cringy anecdotes, but I must state that the notion that music is therapeutic will forever ring true. Now, in my 30s, it still sits beside me in my darkest and brightest. From love to loss, it echoes within arm’s reach. Last year, The ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
4M ago
[Cover art by Timon Kokott] It’s fair to be a bit nervous about quality whenever a band releases full-length albums in back-to-back years. That quick-turn approach can leave you wondering if inspiration was truly firing on all cylinders, if we’re getting fed a collection of tracks that hit the cutting room floor for the last ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
4M ago
[Cover art by Kikyz1313] Prolificacy is an oft-lauded trait for bands in the metal world. We are constant consumers on the lookout for more tasty morsels to glut our filthy musical maws, so bands that regularly throw scraps out to satiate us are given special attention. Once upon a time, the pressure of record labels ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
4M ago
Smoke rises from a dirty ashtray and drifts over the side table toward the yellowing windows. September has bled into October, unusually warm, and time seems to have stopped altogether. Day after day, the same. My eyes blankly stare into the parking lot, narrowing in detached curiosity at which of the steel blips speeding by ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
4M ago
Somewhere, in some galaxy far, far away, lies some poor creature who’s never had the chance to binge King Crimson’s Red, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Death’s Symbolic, Morbid Angel’s Altars of Madness, Gorguts’ Obscura, and countless others I’m sure you’re all too familiar with. There are no words to articulate just ...
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Last Rites » Death Metal
5M ago
[Cover art by Paolo Girardi] The passing of Trevor Strnad will forever be linked to Servitude as it’s the first album to be released by The Black Dahlia Murder since that terrible day. However, I would like this review to act as a celebration of the perseverance that turned into a formidable 10th album. I’ve already written ...
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