Articles by Chris Ayers

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  OM

  Conference of the Birds

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  In the Star Wars myth, the Force is an invisible energy that pulses through the universe and binds it together. Plug an amp into that curre...

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  Place Of Skulls

  The Black Is Never Far

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  After dissolving the band early last year, bandleader Victor Griffin decided there was still an album’s worth of metal left in Place of Sku...

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  Daylight Dies

  Dismantling Devotion

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  The buzz was already in full swing for North Carolina’s doom/death practitioners Daylight Dies when they released 2002’s No Reply, their la...

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  The Ocean

  Aeolian

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Deutsch septet the Ocean recorded Aeolian over the same year-and-a-half as 2004’s fluxion — January 2004 to July 2005 — though few of the o...

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  OM

  Variations on a Theme

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Since the release of their 1992 magnum opus Sleep’s Holy Mountain, critics and fans have prattled over the effect that the late, great Slee...

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  Scissorfight

  Victory Over Horseshit

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  New Hampshire’s woolly warmongers return with a five-song EP to introduce their forthcoming long player, the suitably named Juggernaut. The...

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  Testament

  Live in London

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  When founding guitarist Alex Skolnick rejoined Bay Area metal titans Testament for 2001’s First Strike Still Deadly, a re-recording of clas...

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  Gojira

  From Mars to Sirius

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

  With the Japanese translation of Godzilla as their moniker, Bayonne, France’s Gojira obliterate the competition with their wide swath of me...