Articles by Greg Pratt

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  Infected Malignity

  RE;BEL

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2008

  Aside from a nonsensical title, this is a smokin’ EP. The combination of utter brutality, stemming mostly from Florida death metal and comp...

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  Led Zeppelin

  Mothership/The Song Remains the Same

  PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2007

  Nerdy debates aside about whether the world needs another collection of Zep tunes (the answer is probably no, but we do like different trac...

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  Activity Book

  Metal Spawn

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2007

  Kids are natural metal-heads. With all that energy — and all that screaming — it only makes sense that when it comes to activity time, they...

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  Demiricous

  Two (Poverty)

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2007

  Previously known as the band that sounds a lot like Slayer, these Indianapolis thrashers have expanded a bit on Two but kept the Slayer-ism...

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  Putresence

  Fatal White Pustules upon Septic Organs

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2007

  It doesn’t really matter that of these 15 grotesque gore-grind tunes from Winnipeg’s Putrescence four are live and one is an old, unrelease...

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  Trap Them

  Seance Prime

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2007

  Trap Them’s last, the awesomely-named Sleepwell Deconstructor, was impressively heavy but too bogged down in technical grind and hardcore f...

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  Great Deceiver

  Life is Wasted on the Living

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2007

  For full-length number three, this rather eccentric bunch combine a metal and hardcore edge with some groove, melody and experimentation, a...

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  Hatesphere

  Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2007

  While this isn’t the most exciting album to come out this year, with the Haunted stepping down as the kings of modern day thrash, there is...