Articles by Chris Ayers

The Ocean

Here Where Nothing Grows

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Portland, Maine’s Ocean (not to be confused with Germany’s Isis-inspired and recent Metal Blade signing the Ocean) are a way-down-tuned doo...

Burnt By The Sun Are Revolution Cinematographers

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Open up the liner notes of Burnt By The Suns Soundtrack To The Personal Revolution (Relapse) and youll discover something revolutionary: ea...

The Fucking Champs' Metal Without the Mess

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Not really metal, but certainly not indie rock either, one might think that San Francisco's the Fucking Champs live in a world of contradic...

The All-Seeing <b>Isis</b>

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

On 2002's Oceanic, hardcore deconstructionists Isis, like Neurosis before them, perfected their neo-tribal metal by juxtaposing massive sla...

Fear Factory

Concrete

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

With news of the break-up of industrial metal magnates Fear Factory came the rediscovery of the band's little-known first studio album Conc...

Meshuggah

Nothing

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Meshuggah fans waited four years for the next studio offering... for Nothing? Take one groundbreaking Swedish technical metal outfit and ad...

Hate

Cain's Way

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Thankfully not copying neighbours Vader, Poland's Hate proceed in a much more Floridian death-metal vein down Cain's Way. As the sub-genre...

Cave In

Tides Of Tomorrow

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

To placate the masses before their forthcoming major label debut in early 2003, Boston's hardcore-turned-indie-rock craftsmen Cave In relea...