Articles by Greg Pratt

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  Jungle Rot

  Skin the Living

  PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2013

  Among my life goals is meeting someone who's a diehard Jungle Rot fan, has a tattoo or even owns a shirt. I just don't seem to come across...

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  Voivod

  Away Mission

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2013

  If there were any doubts among the faithful about legendary Quebec prog-metal dudes Voivod being able to recapture the magic of their class...

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  Strike

  Back In Flames

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

  This reissue claims to allegedly be the first Italian heavy metal album ever ("before Vanadium and Vanexa!" says the bio). It's originally...

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  Convulse

  Inner Evil

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2013

  Finland's Convulse were never on anyone's top-three-of-all-time list or anything, but they put out one cool full-length, in 1994's Reflecti...

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  Cult Of Luna

  Vertikal

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2013

  Feel sorry for Cult of Luna. The Swedish dudes were playing this epic Neurosis/Isis style before horrible tags like "post-metal" (I don't w...

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  Resistance

  Rise from Treason

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2013

  Don't let that Hatebreed-esque hardcore cover fool you — this isn't complete meathead hardcore. Rather, it's a bunch of Swedish death...

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  Gruesome Stuff Relish

  Sempiternal Death Grind

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2013

  Love that album name, and on full-length number three, Spanish gore-grinders Gruesome Stuff Relish (okay, love that band name too) give us...

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  Chariots of the Gods

  Tides of War

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2013

  It's nice to hear melodic metal that isn't cloying or cliché in any way. This Ottawa, ON five-piece rise above the melodic metal masses wit...