Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Nader Sadek

  In the Flesh

  PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2011

  Egyptian-born, but NYC-based, conceptual artist Nader Sadek is no stranger to the metal world, as he's designed installations and costumes...

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  Orange Goblin

  Boxset

  PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2011

  With the prospect of a sixth studio album (originally slated for a 2009 release) presently up in the air, Orange Goblin's first label, Rise...

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  Deadfall

  New Light

  PUBLISHED May 10, 2011

  Djent is an onomatopoeia for the palm-muted guitar chord popularized by Meshuggah, and current proponents of the djent metal subgenre inclu...

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  Believer

  Transhuman

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2011

  One of the greatest joys about metal is that sometimes it never goes away, and in the case of scene vets Believer, it just gets better and...

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  Winter

  Into Darkness

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2011

  Originally released in 1990 on indie Future Shock, Long Island, NY's Winter debuted on the then-nascent doom scene with the proto-gravity o...

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  Graf Orlock

  Doombox

  PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2011

  Los Angeles' Graf Orlock have one-upped themselves, times infinity: their Doombox EP is housed in a fold-out cardboard boombox facsimile fr...

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  Constants

  If Tomorrow the War

  PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2010

  Boston-based Constants first grabbed the national spotlight with their vegetable oil-fuelled tour bus, and now bandleader Will Benoit has c...

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  Year Of No Light

  Ausserwelt

  PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2010

  Only the second release from this ultra-talented French band, Ausserwelt could be Year of No Light's finest hour. To top 2007's mind-blowin...