Articles by Greg Pratt

Mastodon Address Controversial Thanksgiving T-Shirt, Talk New Live Record and Upcoming Studio Album

PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2013

Although Atlanta prog-metal titans Mastodon have some exciting stuff going on, including an upcoming live album and a new full-length studi...

Pro-Pain

The Final Revolution

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2013

Astonishingly, this is Pro-Pain's 14th album, so they know what they're doing: huge grooves (see "Want Some?") laid over mid-to-fast New Yo...

J.J. Hrubovcak

Death Metal Christmas - Hellish Renditions of Christmas Classics

PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2013

You know those atrocious novelty metal Christmas albums that no one actually enjoys? This is nothing like those. You might chuckle at Hate...

Funeral Circle

Funeral Circle

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2013

It's great to see some trad doom coming out of Canada's west coast. Vancouver's Funeral Circle definitely and defiantly going against the g...

Drugs of Faith

Architectural Failures

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2013

One of extreme music's most evasive yet respected bands, Drugs of Faith, are back with their first material since 2011's Corroded, and this...

Obliteration

Black Death Horizon

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2013

This third full-length in for Norwegian old-school death metal band Obliteration is likely the first many on North American shores will hav...

Stryper

No More Hell to Pay

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2013

It's odd that Christian rockers Stryper drop a Doobie Brothers cover a mere four songs into this, their seventh full-length, but considerin...

Lita Ford

Lita Ford The Bitch is Back... Live

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2013

The enthusiastic crowd of what sounds like 12 people at this concert really go for it, eating up Lita's odd and likeable stage banter ("Oh,...