Last Rites (blog)

Last Rites, formerly Metal Review, is a music blog focusing primarily on heavy metal music including critical reviews, feature articles, and interviews.

Last Rites
Type of site
Music blog
OwnerMatt Brown
EditorMichael Wuensch and Zach Duvall
URLyourlastrites.com
Alexa rank172,293
Launched2001

History

In 2001 Matt Brown created Metal Review, a music blog with the tagline "the site that provides you with insightful and focused reviews with the intention to steer you to the finest metal for your dollar." [1] The site featured music reviews, news, mp3 downloads, and a forum for music discussion. The forum helped foster a sense of community and some of its active members went on to write for the blog.[2]

In December 2012 the editorial staff renamed the blog to Last Rites and moved it to a new domain address.[3]

The forum component of the website was removed in March 2013. As a result, a Facebook group page, Last Rites/MR Forum Community, was created to fill the void.

On July 30, 2015 the blog was moved from the lastrit.es domain to the yourlastrites.com domain due to technical difficulties.

Content

As of January 2015 Last Rites contains over 7,400 album reviews and over 900 original feature articles and interviews. It has also served as the host for several pre-release album streams for Metal Blade Records.[4][5][6]

gollark: I too love a total lack of memory safety and general low-levelness?
gollark: Haskell kind of cool but not something I actually want to write serious code in.
gollark: Python does "dynamic" without "hahahaha stuff can randomly be coerced".
gollark: Instead of just silently doing wrong things.
gollark: It should definitely be a type error, ideally at compile time but JS does not actually have that.

References
  1. "Way Back Machine". Archived from the original on May 24, 2002. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  2. "Blogger Spotlight Zach Duvall (Last Rites)". Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  3. "Welcome". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  4. "Sahg stream "Firechild" on lastrit.es". Retrieved 2015-01-13.
  5. "SHAKHTYOR stream "Handschuhmann" on Lastrit.es!". Retrieved 2015-01-13.
  6. "Down Among the Dead Men stream track on lastrit.es". Retrieved 2015-01-13.
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