About this artist
Last Rites are an English goth-industrial band formed by the Wright brothers of Fields of the Nephilim and Rubicon, Alexander "Nod" Wright and Paul Wright, with Bob Ahern and James Quinn.
After releasing two albums with Rubicon, What Starts, Ends, and Room 101, the Wright brothers felt it was time to move on. "Rubicon came to a point where the band had reached a final stage," Nod Wright told Zillo magazine in 2001. "To be honest, it just didn't make sense any more to continue. But it opened our eyes for things which seemed reliable to us and which we definitely wanted to pursue. The most important thing was to continue making music."
Nod Wright also told Zillo that he handled much of the recording of Last Rites' first album, Guided by Light. He also performed all the band's vocals.
He told Metal Invader that much of the material for Guided by Light had been written originally for Fields of the Nephilim, and probably would have been part of that band's next record had they not broken up in the early 1990s.