Articles by Greg Pratt

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  Deathspell Omega

  Drought

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2012

  French extreme experimentalists Deathspell Omega start off this EP (which follows up 2010's worthy Paracletus) with "Salowe Vision," a tune...

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  Lita Ford

  Living Like a Runaway

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

  There's no greater downer than when a party-hard fave from decades past gets all serious. We saw it happen to tons of glam bands in the '90...

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  Mantas

  Death by Metal

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

  Relapse's Death reissue campaign is certainly exhaustive, as this collection of material from Death main man Chuck Schuldiner's pre-Death a...

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  Rumpelstiltskin Grinder

  Ghostmaker

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

  For their third full-length, Philadelphia funny-guy thrashers Rumpelstiltskin Grinder have moved off of Relapse and switched over to Candle...

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  U.D.O.

  Celebrator: Rare Tracks

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

  Actually listening to music before reviewing it is in the job description, but for a double CD of rare U.D.O. tracks, we all know what it w...

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  The Wretched End

  Inroads

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2012

  Something about this Norwegian trio just rules, in the same way something about Zyklon just ruled (and it's not just the fact that they bot...

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  Mortal Infinity

  District Destruction

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2012

  Love the album title; it's a total throwback to thrash/crossover heyday concepts (this debut album follows up 2010 EP Eternal War, itself n...

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  Thornafire

  Eclipse Nox Coagula

  PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2012

  Chile's Thornafire do a great job balancing cult, raw death with a grooving thrash edge and an unhinged South American death metal vibe. Im...