Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Cable

  Variable Speed Drive

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  Cable’s 1996 debut has been woefully out-of-print for at least a decade but in celebration of the reforming of this Connecticut juggernaut,...

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  Conifer

  Crown Fire

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  Portland, Maine’s Ocean smothered all doom fans with 2006’s Here Where Nothing Grows, and now neighbours Conifer (who have shared members,...

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  Gojira

  The Way of All Flesh

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  One of metal’s most anticipated records, The Way of All Flesh by France’s Gojira has all the markings of one of the year’s best: evenly exe...

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  The Roller

  The Roller

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  Multimedia specialists Monofonus Press focus on pairing unique audio and print material for each of its artists. Hence, the debut album fro...

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  Asva

  What You Don't Know Is Frontier

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2008

  Clinching the year’s most-fitting-title award, What You Don’t Know Is Frontier is the sophomore full-length from ambient doom riders Asva....

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  Chingalera

  Dose

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2008

  Since they released their debut, In the Shadow of the Black Palm Tree, earlier this year, L.A.’s Melvins-esque experi-metallists Chingalera...

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  Helms Alee

  Night Terror

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2008

  Hydra Head has created another soon-to-be cult band with Washington state’s Helms Alee. Starring Harkonen/These Arms Are Snakes’ Ben Verell...

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  Humanoid

  Remembering Universe

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2008

  Mathieu Marcotte, already well known as the accomplished guitarist in Montréal tech metal titans Augury, has raised his own bar of success...