Articles by Greg Pratt

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  Annihilator

  Metal

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  Oh, Jeff Waters, how we always have high hopes for you. You are one of the masters of Canuck thrash, and a guitar wiz to boot. But, man, yo...

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  Landmine Marathon / Scarecrow

  Landmine Marathon / Scarecrow

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  Arizona’s Landmine Marathon’s three songs on this split were growers — while at first the lack of hooks and relentlessly screamed vocals we...

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  Neuraxis

  Live Progression

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  Live albums in general are useless. And while I’m not entirely sold that we needed a live disc from Quebec technical thrashers Neuraxis, th...

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  Nyia/Antigama

  Nyia / Antigama

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  All hail Poland, where extreme experimental metal is alive and well, as this 16-minute split CD proves. Heck, this could have been a four-m...

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  Saviours

  Into Abaddon

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  It’s easy to get jaded on trends, especially when said trend has been given the moniker of "hipster metal.” Yuck. But Saviours have the cho...

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  Lizzy Borden

  Appointment with Death

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2008

  It’s funny: I was excited when this latest from ’80s U.S. shock/glam/trad metallers Lizzy Borden showed up, then it took me a month to get...

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  Mumakil

  Customized Warfare

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2008

  I’m not sure if having members of the almighty Knut in your band, as well as lesser-known Swiss bands like Deceit, Nostromo and Stumpfucker...

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  Nifelheim

  Envoy of Lucifer

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2008

  Now this is how black metal should be done — raw enough that there’s feeling but not so raw that it all becomes a mess. With hints of thras...