Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Coma Recovery

  Drown That Holy End in Wine

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Formerly named Persona Projector, Albuquerque, NM’s the Coma Recovery are helping to change the face of indie metal. Their debut, Drown Tha...

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  Gersch

  The Gersch

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  A long defunct Boston group, the Gersch played Unsane-inspired sludge metal in their short life in the late ’90s, releasing a lone single o...

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  Spiritu / Village of Dead Roads

  Human Failures

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Two of the finest riff rockers from opposite sides of America convene to give the old doom bell a few hearty tugs. New Mexico’s Spiritu, st...

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  Mouth of the Architect

  The Ties That Bind

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Turns out that Dayton, OH also has an affinity for Isis-inspired metal, namely Mouth of the Architect. After 2004’s debut Time & Withering...

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  Vio-Lence

  Blood & Dirt

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Along with Testament, Forbidden, Exodus and a little band called Metallica, Vio-Lence ruled the Bay Area thrash scene in late ’80s San Fran...

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  Megadeth

  Arsenal of Megadeth

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  The definitive DVD for these thrash progenitors, the two-disc Arsenal of Megadeth is packed with videos, interviews, live footage and hidde...

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  Mortician

  Re-animated Dead Flesh

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Three years after their Relapse swan song Darkest Day of Horror, New York "manglecore” mavens Mortician return with Re-animated Dead Flesh,...

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  Sinister

  Afterburner

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  Often counted with Asphyx and Pestilence as one of the great death bands from the Netherlands, Sinister were also one of the very few to fe...