Type of site Music blog Website yourlastrites.com Launched 2001 | Owner Matt Brown Alexa rank 172,293 | |
Editor Michael Wuensch and Zach Duvall | ||
Last Rites, formerly Metal Review, is a music blog focusing primarily on heavy metal music including critical reviews, feature articles, and interviews.
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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." 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.
In December 2012 the editorial staff renamed the blog to Last Rites and moved it to a new domain address, [1].
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.