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Brotherhood and loyalty hold together the battles, betrayals and mythological upheavals of ASENBLUT’s new album, Urgewalt. Released on September 18, 2026, through Massacre Records, the record arrives alongside a video for “Barbaren und Legionen,” featuring VICTORIUS, while the German band continue their Bruderschaft tour. The new single combines driving riffs and forceful vocals with an […]

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The relationships meant to offer safety can leave the deepest wounds. On Heirloom, SOMNENT explore the lasting damage of a toxic family environment and the difficult freedom that can come from cutting those ties. The Orlando melodic doom/death metal project’s third studio album arrives on October 30, 2026, through Ardua Music. Founded in 2015 by […]

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Heimdall awakens from a troubled sleep to find a world he no longer recognises. That encounter drives HEIMDALLS WACHT’s ninth studio album, Sphärenschänder: Echoes Of An Old Belief – Part I, due on October 31, 2026, through Talheim Records. The German black metal band follow the displaced guardian as he confronts the present with bewilderment, […]

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After “Sunburnt Satanist” and the saxophone-assisted “The Tolerator,” BEATEN TO DEATH have another bluntly titled contribution to offer: “Fuck the Moon.” The Norwegian grindcore band’s new single previews Vntrve, their seventh full-length, due on October 23, 2026, through Mas-Kina Recordings. The three advance tracks introduce an album built around the band’s combination of speed, abrupt […]

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These rock stars saw the future, decades before it arrived. Continue reading…

Buddy Miller’s self-titled album makes an easy case for pairing with Dan Penn’s 1994 Do Right Man. Both records sit where country, soul and gospel overlap, but the stronger connection is in how they treat songs and singers. Penn appears on Miller’s new album, which makes the lineage unusually direct.

With Chris Kontos and Matt Camacho set to sit out the trek

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Featuring Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol and more

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Go inside Metallica and “Master of Puppets,” their classic 1986 album that is really one of their landmark releases.

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Howdy, friends. It’s time, once again, to bask in the Last Rites staff’s exquisite musical taste, with a little feature we call Staff Infections. Before we get to the music, though, let’s take a moment to acknowledge the passing of Andy Williams, guitarist of Every Time I Die and professional wrestler known as “The Butcher”. I was vaguely aware of Andy’s career as both a professional musician and professional wrestler, but I can’t claim any real familiarity with his work in either field. However, in the days since Andy’s passing, I have heard nothing but good things about him form many of his colleagues, and to succeed in not one, but two grueling careers is an impressive feat. He must have been a Hell of a man. May he rest in peace.

On to the music. It’s a short story this time around; we have a tie for album of the month with no runners-up. Sharing first place are Death Angel with its 1990 thrash classic Act III and Brazilian progressive rock, etc. act Papangu with its recently released album, Celestial, of which Captain has a review right here.

For our group discussion this month, give us your favorite metalcore album and/or your favorite professional wrestler.  Metalcore isn’t really my bag, but, if it’s not too old-school to qualify, I’ll go with Integrity’s Those Who Fear Tomorrow. As for wrestlers, I think Kurt Angle is one of the best to ever do it, both in the ring and on the mic.
That’s just about it for this month. Have a listen to the staff-curated Spotify playlist below, and please share your own playlist in the comments. See you all next month.

• Zach Duvall
  Krallice – Scour Order
  Static Abyss – The Dying Hunt
  Papangu – Celestial
  Buried – Imagined Deformation
  Dream Theater – Awake
  Devin Townsend – Terria
• Danhammer Obstkrieg
  Sigh – Goh-ka
  Evil Island – Terraform the Afterlife
  Dinosaur Jr. – There Near
  Henry Threadgill – Cut You Where You Was
  Ch’ahom – Anthropic Rites of Sublimation
  Wadada Leo Smith – Constellations and Hemispheres
• Andrew Edmunds
  Mastodon – Leviathan
  Traffic Death – Backroads And Strange Encounters
  Electric Light Orchestra – Face The Music
  Nak’ay / Whoresnation – split
  Cramps – Songs The Lord Taught Us
  Death Angel – The Ultra-Violence
• Wolf Rambatz
  The Cramps – Gravest Gravy
  Kiwi Jr – Blowin’ Up
  B.A. Johnston – I Don’t Know Who Needs to Hear This Right Now But They Are Never Coming Back and You Will Die Alone
  The Darling Buds – Pop Said…
  Abhorrent Castigation – Throne of Existential Abandonment
  Makkmat – Syke Fantasier
• Spencer Hotz
  Anata – The Conductor’s Departure
  Zorn – Return to Castle Death
  Veilcaste – Hellward
  REZN – Cycles in the Infinite Dream
  Growth – Under the Under
  Darwin!- Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
• Captain
  Advent Horizon – Falling Together
• David Fonseca
  Judas Priest – Metal Works ’73 – ’93
  Ween – Live in Chicago, 2003
  Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe
  Paul Simon – Graceland
  Queensryche – Empire
  Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
• Isaac Hams
  Russian Circles – Nine
  Dreadnought – Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light
  MF Doom – Doomsday
  Papangu – Celestial
  Drudkh – Autumn Aurora
  Funebrarum – Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence
• Lone Watie
  Tidal Wave – Volume Tree
  Schizoid – Total Mayhem
  Whoresnation/Nak’ay – Split LP
  Death Angel – The Ultra-Violence
  Electric Light Orchestra – Time
  Bill Evans Trio – Moon Beams
• Jeremy Morse
  High Command – Beyond the Wall of Desolation
  Invincible Force – Decomposed Sacramentum
  Corrosion of Conformity – Wiseblood
  Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss
  Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness
  Dan Swanö – Moontower

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