Articles by Chris Ayers

Novembers Doom

To Welcome The Fade

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Chicago’s Novembers Doom continue their reign of classical doom over North American shores with To Welcome The Fade, crisply produced by lo...

Morbid Angel

Heretic

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Untouchable and without peer, Morbid Angel continue their alphabetically ordered releases with their eighth album, Heretic. Despite the dep...

Totimoshi

Monoli

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Third time’s the charm: San Francisco’s Totimoshi reach their career apex with their third album of multifarious metal. Monoli picks up whe...

Keelhaul

Subject to Change Without Notice

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Prog-noise potentates, math-rock mavens, whatever the tag: Cleveland’s Keelhaul once again redefine hardcore and reduce the indie-gone-main...

Probot

Probot

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Pioneering grunge with Nirvana and redefining pop with Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl realises his rock’n’roll dream and records a metal album wi...

YOB

Catharsis

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Eugene, Oregon is a fertile bed of college-fuelled creativity, and Yob are its latest — and maybe greatest — purveyors of Sleep-inspired st...

Transmission0

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Simply making Isis and Cave In references isn’t enough to describe the sonic sprawl created by Transmission0, for this Dutch quintet takes...

Jesu

Jesu

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

After the release of 2001’s Hymns — arguably Godflesh’s finest hour — and at the zenith of their career, band founder Justin Broadrick diss...