Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Hawg Jaw

  Send Out the Dogs

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  A debut of sorts, Send Out the Dogs is the first full-length album from these New Orleans sludgemeisters, and exactly half the tracks are n...

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  High Tone Son of a Bitch

  Better You than Me

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  Drop-forged by former members of Cruevo, Christ On Parade and Medication Time, Oakland’s High Tone Son of a Bitch feature the guitar master...

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  Dove

  Dove

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  On the heels of the new Floor album titled Dove comes the band Dove, starring Floor drummer Henry Wilson on guitar and vocals. Fans first g...

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  Lair of the Minotaur

  Carnage

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  After the demise of 7000 Dying Rats, band-mates and Chicago natives Steven Rathbone and Donald James Barraca enlisted Pelican/Tusk drummer...

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  Mastodon

  Leviathan

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  The highly anticipated follow-up to 2002’s Remission, Mastodon’s Leviathan does not disappoint — but be forewarned that it is a sonic evolu...

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  Necrophagist

  Epitaph

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Despite their goregrind-sounding moniker, Deutschland techies Necrophagist are far from the feckless drunks that dwell in this metal subgen...

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  Saint Vitus

  V

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Originally released in 1990, the fifth album by now cult-doom act Saint Vitus was the last studio album that Scott "Wino” Weinrich recorded...

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  Canvas Solaris

  Sublimation

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Sublimation is the chemical leap from solid to gas with no liquid phase, which is exactly what has happened to Georgia’s Canvas Solaris. In...