Articles by Chris Ayers

Overkill
Wrecking Everything - Live
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002
What Springsteen is to rock, Overkill is to thrash: uncompromising and honest music from start to finish. Both acclaimed and ignored by cri...
Sabians
Beauty For Ashes
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002
Featuring ex-members of the legendary Sleep, who wouldn't expect the Sabians to be another down-tuned sludgefest of epic proportions? Or ma...
Tapping The Vein
The Damage
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002
Neither a drug reference nor a Sodom cover band, Tapping The Vein is a metaphor for creativity wellsprings. Signed to Rebelution, the newes...
Totimoshi
¿Mysterioso?
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002
Its no surprise that eclectic alt-metal/doomsters Totimoshi hail from Californias Bay area and that Melvins brainchild King Buzzo is the...
Masters of Reality
Deep In The Hole
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002
More rock-oriented and less experimental than 2000's Welcome To The Western Lodge, this is Masters Of Reality's most accessible record. Hea...
Greenwood
Horus On The Horizon
PUBLISHED May 1, 2002
Depending on whom you ask, stoner rock is another one of yesterday's sounds that have now become too watered down for anyone to care. Toron...
Quitter
Quitter
PUBLISHED May 1, 2002
Among the best of Boston's teeming underground scene, Quitter are much more than simply a Roadsaw side project, even though the band is thr...
Superhighway Carfire
Shell Of A Man
PUBLISHED May 1, 2002
Among all of Philadelphia's troupes hawking their obnoxiously loud wares, Superhighway Carfire are among the most inventive, weaving togeth...