Articles by Greg Pratt

Witchrist

Beheaded Ourboros

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2010

"Sorcerer of Lightning" starts things off right on this New Zealand's band's debut full-length; it features an extremely slow, raw and slop...

Cephalic Carnage

Misled by Certainty

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2010

There are more points on long-running tech grinders Cephalic Carnage's excellent sixth album, Misled by Certainty, where the band sound lik...

Blood Revolt

Indoctrine

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2010

It's a perplexing idea: get Canada's king of blackened war metal, J. Read (Axis of Advance, Conqueror, Revenge), together with Ireland's ki...

Pelican Celebrate Ten Years with Limited Box Set and Their Own Pelican Beer

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2010

Chicago attention-span testers and post-rock instrumental shoegazers Pelican are celebrating their tenth birthday. And how do rock guys ce...

Bonded By Blood

Exiled to Earth

PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2010

The retro thrash revival is dead. That was fast, but so it goes when young bands are trying to impress 40-year-old dudes who heard Metallic...

Early Graves Vocalist Makh Daniels Dies at 28

PUBLISHED Aug 3, 2010


A van accident has taken the life of another touring metal musician: Early Graves vocalist Makh Daniels, who died yesterday (August...

Watch Kanye West Hype New Album at, Um, Facebook Headquarters

PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2010


It's not so odd that Kanye West recently made a public appearance to hype his forthcoming album. But the method the man chose to get...

Strike Anywhere's Thomas Barnett

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2010

Thomas Barnett, the perennially dreadlocked crooner for long-running Richmond, VA-based punks Strike Anywhere, is a walking punk rock oral...