Articles by Chris Ayers
Scale The Summit
Carving Desert Canyons
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2009
Instrumental prog metal can be dense conglomerates, which Dysrhythmia, Canvas Solaris and Don Caballero craft as exemplars of the subgenre....
Six Feet Under
Death Rituals
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2009
As maligned as Six Feet Under have been in reviews of their first 12 releases (including one of metal's only indie label box sets), lucky 1...
Rush
Snakes & Arrows Live
PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2009
For a band that's pushing 40 years together, Rush have certainly taken advantage of the DVD market by releasing seven multi-sets over the p...
-16-
Bridges to Burn
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009
From Cris Jerue's antagonistic caterwauls in scorching opener "Throw in the Towel" it's absolutely evident that SoCal noiseniks -16- have r...
Bloodbath
The Fathomless Mastery
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009
The perennial death metal side-project of Sweden's hardest working musicians, Bloodbath log their third full-length - their sixth release o...
Hyatari
They Will Surface
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009
Back in 2004, Earache Records did something amazing: they signed a licensing deal with UK label Code:Breaker for the domestic releases of a...
Killwhitneydead
Stocking Stuffher
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009
Twisted holiday greetings arrive from North Carolina's sample-crazy thrashers Killwhitneydead in a four-song, two-video limited-edition EP....
P.H.O.B.O.S.
AnÅdipal
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009
If there were ever music "To Disrupt The Cycle Of The Fæces" (the subtitle of Anœdipal's opener "Unzen"), then it is P.H.O.B.O....