Articles by Greg Pratt

Antigama

Warning

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

Even cretins like me, whose job it is to sit around and dissect obscure overseas grindcore, get confused by this stuff after awhile. But, t...

God Forbid

Earthsblood

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

Rarely does my opinion on a band go back and forth so many times, within the same damn song, as it does on this fifth full-length from New...

Deceiver

Thrashing Heavy Metal

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2009

Between song titles like "Graveyard Lover" and "Coma of Death Toxication" (a Motörhead-meets-Sepultura album highlight) and the fact t...

Kylesa

Static Tensions

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2009

There's always been something rather rag-tag about Kylesa's sound. It could be the mixing together of sludge, crust, doom and punk; it migh...

Drugs of Faith

2008 Demo

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2009

Normally a three-song demo clocking in at five minutes wouldn't warrant much press but when you're Virginian grinders Drugs of Faith, it do...

Vulcano

Tales from the Black Book

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2009

Raw Brazilian blackened death sounds good right about now, and Vulcano, who apparently formed in '81 and had a ten-year break somewhere in...

Soilwork's Peter Wichers

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009

Although they don't quite provide as much fuel in the hate game as their fellow Swedish melodic metallers In Flames, Soilwork have found th...

Crowpath

One with Filth

PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2009

Four albums in for these Swedish noise mongers and what's changed? Nothing, which is hard to believe. How do you continue crafting songs th...