Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Misery Loves Co.

  Zero

  PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2019

  In the mid-'90s, Swedish industrial band Misery Loves Co. signed to the formidable Earache Records and quickly became a shining star among...

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  Warcrab

  Damned in Endless Night

  PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2019

  Death/doom denizens Warcrab extricate themselves from their UK-based fens to shell out another slab of bottom-heavy metal with Damned in En...

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  Hex

  God Has No Name

  PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2019

  When Bolt Thrower gave up the ghost back a few years ago, no single band stepped up to fill the void left by the long-running UK death meta...

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  The Lord Weird Slough Feg

  New Organon

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2019

  When grindcore godfathers Napalm Death started using their original logo again in 2000, it marked a shift of musical style back to their ge...

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  Nocturnus AD

  Paradox

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2019

  A band truly before their time, Tampa death dwellers Nocturnus were one of the first death metal bands to use keyboards to propel their sci...

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  Chalice of Suffering

  Lost Eternally

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2019

  Death/doom-bringers Chalice of Suffering have been crafting rime-encrusted funeral doom in the Minneapolis tundra since their primitive 201...

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  Merzbow

  Venereology

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2019

  Merzbow is one of the world's premier noise artists and, with over 400 releases, the most prolific musician you don't know. This one-man ou...

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  The Wandering Ascetic

  Crimson

  PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2019

  Pioneers of Vedic metal, Singapore's Rudra melded Hindu lyrical themes with black metal and Indian classical music. Frontman Kathir and gui...