Articles by Greg Pratt

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  City of Ships

  Live Free or Don't

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  I can’t express exactly how refreshing this five-song EP from an obscure Richmond, VA band is. With a nice bottom-heavy production sound, t...

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  Coalesce

  012:2

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  How do you reissue the perfect album? By not doing a thing to it (well, it’s been remastered). With no extra bonus tracks added, this reiss...

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  Drain The Sky

  Haunted by Rivers

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  Most bands don’t want to dwell on what groups their members previously spent time in. And I know it was years ago but His Hero Is Gone were...

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  Testament

  The Formation of Damnation

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  I’m beginning to think Testament are the best metal band of today. They haven’t released a new album since 1999’s The Gathering but that’s...

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  Venomous Concept

  Poisoned Apple

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

  For some reason, even though Venomous Concept’s 2004 debut, Retroactive Abortion, contained an all-star underground extreme music line-up (...

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  Abysmal Dawn

  Programmed to Consume

  PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2008

  It’s oddly refreshing to see a label like Relapse, which generally signs pretty leftfield bands, adding some straight-ahead American death...

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  Arsis

  We Are the Nightmare

  PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2008

  For those wondering where technical and melodic death metal could progress to after Death’s mighty swansong, The Sound of Perseverance, loo...

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  Coldworker

  Rotting Paradise

  PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2008

  Album number two for this Swedish death/grind machine (founded by former Nasum drummer Anders Jakobson) sees them maturing into a fully dev...