Articles by Greg Pratt

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  Coalesce

  Give them Rope

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2011

  As time marches forward, relentlessly and mercilessly, it only becomes clearer how great Coalesce were/are. Looking back, this band ruled e...

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  Voivod

  To the Death 84

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2011

  This 1984 jam room demo of Quebec metal warlords Voivod has circulated as a bootleg for years and has been included as bonus tracks on reis...

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  Speedwolf

  Ride with Death

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2011

  It's fun seeing a label like Hell's Headbangers, who so often focus on the most intense, blackened, evil, war death-thrash around, putting...

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  Sanguis Imperem

  In Glory We March Towards Our Doom

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2011

  Not to sound like a broken record, or a fully functional black metal one, but it's so refreshing, and necessary, to have labels like Hell's...

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  Megadeth

  Thirteen

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2011

  I've said it before and it holds true with this latest from thrash lifers Megadeth: every album they put out in this late, return-to-form p...

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  Metallica and Lou Reed

  Lulu

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2011

  This is what it's come to? Sloppily executed, rambling, second-rate, experimental Metallica tunes with Lou Reed doing his perennially borin...

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  Hammers of Misfortune

  17th Street

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2011

  There has always been something special about San Francisco, CA's Hammers of Misfortune. Their mix of urban grit and fantastical power/folk...

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  Black Tusk

  Set the Dial

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2011

  Black Tusk's second Relapse disc (fourth overall) isn't exactly full of surprises, with the Savannah, GA-based sludge band doing their roug...