Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Alaric

  Alaric

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2011

  Oakland, CA's Alaric foster a definitive insularity in today's metal scene. Drawing members from punk/metal mainstays Noothgrush, Dead & Go...

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  Elder

  Dead Roots Stirring

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2011

  Sired by Sleep, Monster Magnet and Kyuss, stoner rock burned brightly until its peak in the late '90s, when it dropped out of the public ey...

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  Æges

  Roaches

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2011

  Hailing from all over the States, but converging in Southern California, Æges are a conglomerate of fringe metal bands uniting for a common...

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  Noothgrush

  Live for Nothing

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2011

  Depending on the view du jour of whether the Internet has either helped or hindered the metal scene, it's certainly brought the formally de...

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  Beneath Oblivion

  From Man to Dust

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2011

  Never before has an album paralleled the trajectory of Mindrot's classic Dawning than Beneath Oblivion's From Man to Dust. These Cincinnati...

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  Junius / Rosetta

  Split

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2011

  To properly rouse fans for the October release of their forthcoming full-length, Reports from the Threshold of Death, Boston metal rock hyb...

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  Mournful Congregation

  The Unspoken Hymns

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2011

  Funeral doom connoisseurs will froth over The Unspoken Hymns, a compilation of long out-of-print epics from Australia's Mournful Congregati...

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  Arch/Matheos

  Sympathetic Resonance

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2011

  All Fates Warning fans who long for the salad days of early classics The Spectre Within and Awaken the Guardian have always dreamed that a...