Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Greg Lake

  Welcome Backstage

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2008

  Super-groups breed superegos, and ’70s prog rock masters Emerson, Lake & Palmer had some of the biggest egos in rock history. Vehemently av...

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  Chingalera

  In The Shadow of the Black Palm Tree

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  Listing influences like Sabbath, Deep Purple, the Who, King Crimson, Rollins Band, and Tool, there’s only one persuasive force that need be...

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  Earth

  The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  This apian-titled album, the third from this Earth reincarnation, finds soundscape supervisor Dylan Carlson re-examining the languorous, tw...

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  Fates Warning

  No Exit

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  To celebrate the label’s 25th anniversary, Metal Blade re-released a slew of back-catalogue albums with bonus tracks, DVDs and extras to ke...

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  Havoc Unit

  h.IV+

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  When Synæsthesia: The Requiem Reveries (the three-way split CD with Hävok Ünit, andOceans and the Sin:Decay) was released early last year,...

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  Ocrilim

  Annwn

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  What if the Fucking Champs dismissed drummer Tim Soete and went black metal? Enter Mick Barr, guitar virtuoso of experimental band Orthrelm...

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  Queensryche

  Take Cover

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  It’d be easy to dismiss a Queensrÿche covers album as "for diehard fans only,” but one glance at the track listing reveals that front-man G...

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  Testament

  Demonic / The Gathering

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  To herald their first studio album in almost a decade, this late ’90s deuce of out-of-print Testament albums have been remastered and re-re...