Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Overkill

  Killbox 13

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

  Declining metal trends, label-hopping, and even a mild stroke have not kept Overkill front-man Bobby Blitz Ellsworth from delivering the me...

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  The Devin Townsend Band

  Accelerated Evolution

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2003

  As if his maniacally aggro Strapping Young Lad self-titled album wasn’t enough, Vancouverite Devin Townsend assembles a band of virtual no-...

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  Beaten Back to Pure

  The Last Refuge Of The Sons Of Bitches

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  Beaten Back To Pure are rightly poised to grab the doom/sludge crown from its current home in New Orleans and tote it all the way to their...

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  Sourvein

  Will To Mangle

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  Just as Wisconsin's Bongzilla have finally broken the chains of their career-long mediocrity with their blazing new Gateway album, New Orle...

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  Theory of Ruin

  Counter-Culture Nosebleed

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  Disbanding the lovable UK sludge slingers Fudge Tunnel in 1995 before they started to suck, front-man Alex Newport moved to the States and...

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  Cathedral

  The VIIth Coming

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  If last year’s Endtyme was a return to the roots of Cathedral’s smothering 1991 debut Forest Of Equilibrium, then The VIIth Coming is a def...

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  5ive's Continuum Research Project

  The Hemophiliac Dream

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

  Boston’s ambient drone duo 5ive are all about dynamics and how they interact — heavy and light, soothing and blaring, stark and luscious. A...

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  Souldivider

  Supersound City

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2002

  After the promising The Big Relax EP last year, Sweden's Souldivider maintains their stoner rock stance with their debut full-length, Super...