Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Subarachnoid Space

  Eight Bells

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2009

  Over their nearly 15 years as a band, Subarachnoid Space have been quietly making experimental music for metal heads. After a trio of late...

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  The Moody Blues

  Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2009

  Some concert films are understandably lacklustre, while others transcend mere set lists and capture a band at their creative best. The latt...

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  Callisto

  Providence

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

  With the addition of clean vocalist Jani Ala-Hukkula, Finland's Callisto enter a new age of shimmering post-hardcore radiance. Their initia...

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  Disappearer

  The Clearing

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

  Three years since their self-titled EP on Trash Art, Boston's experi-metal insurgents Disappearer finally release their debut full-length,...

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  Gnostic

  Engineering the Rule

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

  As if the recent Atheist reunion wasn't enough, Gnostic rise to math/tech power with three Atheist members: founding drummer Steve Flynn, w...

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  Black Crowes

  Warpaint Live

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2009

  Southern blues rock icons the Black Crowes deliver a 100-minute set to a packed house last year at the Wiltern in L.A. Chris Robinson, comp...

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  Battlefields

  Thresholds of Imbalance

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

  From the Midwestern climes of Minnesota and North Dakota come Battlefields, who throw genre pigeonholing to the winds with their debut, Thr...

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  Believer

  Gabriel

  PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

  Along with Atheist, Cynic and Death, Pennsylvania's Believer led the American progressive metal charge in the early '90s. After three album...