Articles by Greg Pratt

Over 500 Injured and 19 Killed at Germany's Love Parade Electronic Music Fest; Tragedy Investigated as Possible Manslaughter

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2010


Tragedy struck at this year's Love Parade electronic music festival in Germany, as 19 people were killed and as many as 511 were inj...

Dr. Dre Sued for $1.2 Million over Unpaid Studio Fees

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2010

Hip-hop legend Dr. Dre has taken a moment from collaborating with the tweenies and not putting out Detox to, well, get sued by Paramount Re...

Norma Jean Progress to Primitive

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2010

For Meridional, their fifth album, Atlanta metalcore trailblazers Norma Jean took a sharp left turn away from the hotshot producer (Ross Ro...

Soilwork

The Panic Broadcast

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2010

It's not until the chorus of "Two Lives Worth of Reckoning," the second song on Soilwork's eighth album, that listeners' ears are going to...

Poison the Well Announce Indefinite Hiatus

PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2010

Just our luck: 1,000 crappy metalcore bands keep churning out albums and original bands like hardcore/metal chaps Poison the Well break up....

Vomitor

Devils Poison

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2010

An eight-song, 31-minute album of raw, sloppy Australian war metal is generally a very good idea. Vomitor's second disc (coming at us a ful...

Disfigured Dead

Visions of Death

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2010

If you came of metallic age during 1991 or 1992, there will forever be a place in your heart for death metal. It doesn't matter if it's gen...

Norma Jean

Meridional

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2010

Atlanta, GA-based post-metalcore trailblazers Norma Jean have, with Meridional, just completed the ultimate hat trick of innovative and gen...