Articles by Greg Pratt

Mastodon's Brann Dailor

PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2011

It's with much anticipation that Georgian extreme metal-gone-prog-metal kings Mastodon drop any new release, given that they've ― som...

Machine Head

Unto the Locust

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2011

No one was expecting it when long-running/often-faltering San Francisco, CA thrashers Machine Head dropped The Blackening in '07. The album...

Mastodon

The Hunter

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2011

There was a key point on Mastodon's last album, Crack the Skye, where the band dropped the extreme metal/technical prog mind warpery they d...

Mastodon Explain the Backlash on Themselves with 'The Hunter'

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2011

With their last studio release, Atlanta prog-metal boundary-pushers Mastodon were dropping their sprawling extreme metal tunes to create so...

The Fucking Wrath

Valley of the Serpent's Soul

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2011

For their second full-length, California's the Fucking Wrath have taken their love of all things crusty and metal and crawled further into...

Machine Head's Robb Flynn

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2011

Robb Flynn ― the guy is practically made of metal. You imagine the guitarist/vocalist for San Francisco thrash metal mainstays Machin...

Victoria Author Learns How to 'Walk Like a Man' with Bruce Springsteen

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2011

When Victoria, BC-based author Robert J. Wiersema was approached by Greystone Books to write a book about Bruce Springsteen, he was happy a...

Anthrax

Worship Music

PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2011

Well, we all know the confusing story, end result being that this is Joey Belladonna's first album back in the fold with Anthrax. Amazingly...