Lastrit.es

Last Rites
Web address yourlastrites.com
Type of site
 Music blog
Owner Matt Brown
Editor Michael Wuensch and Zach Duvall
Launched 2001
Alexa rank
 172,293

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

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Way Back Machine". Archived from the original on May 24, 2002. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  2. ↑ "Blogger Spotlight Zach Duvall (Last Rites)". Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  3. ↑ http://yourlastrites.com/articles/425/welcome-to-last-rites. Retrieved 2015-01-12. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  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.

External links

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