Articles by Greg Pratt

Hammers of Misfortune Bring Their Underdog Metal to the Big Leagues with '17th Street'

PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2011

It's never been easy for San Francisco-based weird metallers Hammers of Misfortune. Long under the radar, the band have been critically faw...

Exhumed to Bring Their Guts and Glory to Canada on North American Tour

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2011

Metalheads into the more extreme side of things rejoiced when California gore-grinders Exhumed reformed and released All Guts, No Glory, th...

Black Tusk Aim to Prove "Less Is More" with 'Set the Dial'

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2011

Black Tusk have slowly been building a name for themselves as one of the rising stars of Savannah, GA's metal underground. With Set the Dia...

Skeletonwitch

Forever Abomination

PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2011

Untiring road dogs Skeletonwitch aren't making categorization any easier on album number four, which finds the band bringing more melody an...

Nile

Worship the Animal – 1994: The Lost Recordings

PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2011

I actually, seriously, literally think "La Chant du Cygre," the first song on this EP of unearthed Nile tunes from 1994 (as that oh-so-awkw...

Machine Head Talk 'Unto the Locust'

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011

When San Francisco thrash metallers Machine Head dropped The Blackening back in 2007, it confused a lot of fans out there. The band had jus...

Danava

Hemisphere of Shadows

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011

Now this is retro ― dorky vocals, production values and band photos all conspiring to make this seem like an ironic retro-fest. Howev...

Sacrificial Slaughter/Enfuneration

American Death Thrash

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2011

Hard to fault a split with a name like this, and this fun little tag-team match is actually pretty fault-free. The main complaint is the pr...