Articles by Chris Ayers
Voivod Reminisce About Montreal Cockroaches, Dave Grohl Shoutouts and 40 Years of Trailblazing Metal
PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2023
In the early '80s, when the Canadian metal scene was still nascent, four teenagers from Quebec dreamed of playing heavy metal on stage like...
Graf Orlock Burn the Tapes on the Fiery 'End Credits'
PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023
Though there are a few cinemagrind bands in existence, it's a rarified genre ruled by Los Angeles sample forefathers Graf Orlock. Spot weld...
Vancouver's Thirteen Goats Don't Care What You Think on 'Servants of the Outer Dark'
PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2022
Back in the early aughts, when metalcore was all the rage, schools of subgenre philosophy opened their doors to admit hoards of fans, young...
Dream Unending's 'Tide Turns Eternal' Dives into Death and Doom Metal
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2021
Toronto death metal sadists Tomb Mold buried the competition with their 2019 full-length Planetary Clairvoyance, which, amid the smothering...
Eyehategod Give Their Sloppy Sludge a Squeaky Clean Makeover on 'A History of Nomadic Behavior'
PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2021
New Orleans misanthropes Eyehategod have passed the 30-year milestone of making the most deranged and influential doom metal, though it has...
Nader Sadek Communes with Ancient Spirits on 'The Serapeum'
PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2020
Egyptian-American artist Nader Sadek first scorched the scene in 2011 with his death-metal debut, In the Flesh. Despite the pandemic, Sadek...
Edmonton's Sadistic Embodiment Channel Their Disdain for the Modern World on 'Blood Spell'
PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2020
In the early '90s, death metal cover art was basically a buying guide: the more brutal the art, the more excited I'd be to purchase and rus...
Homicide's Comeback Album 'Left for Dead' Is a How-To Manual on Throwback Thrash
PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2020
There are at least ten metal bands named Homicide, and half of them took that moniker in the late '80s/early '90s. Montreal's Homicide dist...
