Articles by Greg Pratt

Nachtmystium

Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II

PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010

Continuing their four years and counting assault on black metal expectations, Blake Judd and Nachtmystium are back with this follow-up to w...

Brutal Truth

Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses

PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010

The 1992 debut of NYC grind kings Brutal Truth still sounds amazing, as this cool reissue proves. Unlike so much modern grind and death, th...

Ryan Adams Pens New Dio-Inspired Album

PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010


We all know Ryan Adams's recent, ahem, metal album, Orion, and about how he backtracked on calling it a metal album, and how it sold...

Street Pizza

Cancerous Planet

PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010

That horrible cover art is going to turn plenty of potential Street Pizza recruits away, which is a shame. This Richmond, VA band play a ve...

Brutal Knights' Nick Flanagan Suffers Severe Crowd-Surfing Injury

PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2010


Nick Flanagan, vocalist for Toronto punkers Brutal Knights, was the victim of a stage dive gone horribly wrong during a show in Mont...

Michael Jackson Museum in Question After Estate Denies Authorization

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2010


Oh, you just knew there was going to be controversy over this one. When plans were recently announced for the construction of a $300...

Ruiner Announce Breakup

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2010


A post on Baltimore, MD new-school hardcore band Ruiner's MySpace page today (June 4) stated, "I'm getting too old for this shit." U...

David Byrne Eyes Film Adaptation of Imelda Marcos Concept Album

PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2010


Sometimes an album is just begging to be made into a film. Take, for example, David Byrne's most recent disc, Here Lies Love, which...