Articles by Chris Ayers

Flotsam and Jetsam

The End of Chaos

PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2019

For nearly four decades, thrash-metal forefathers Flotsam and Jetsam have established a vicious strain of Bay Area thrash, though they call...

Warcrab

Scars of Aeons

PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2017

Starting with Black Sabbath, England has produced some of the greatest doom bands in metal history. Hailing from Plymouth, Warcrab mix deat...

Body Count

Bloodlust

PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2017

When rapper Ice-T formed Body Count around 1990, it was from his love of heavy metal — specifically Black Sabbath, Suicidal Tendencies and...

The Haunted Metal Made Them Do It

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Metallica and Korn may dominate the aggressive music scene in North America, but it's a whole different ballgame in Europe. Sweden has long...

Candiria's Free Metal Fusion

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

If there were a jazz metal sub-genre, Brooklyn, NY's Candiria would be its sole denizen. Often roped in under the progressive metal umbrell...

Eyehategod

Decade of Discomfort

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Without a doubt, Eyehategod's feedback-drenched, syrupy sludge-core down-tuned dirge Bayou-doom has proven to be one of the more influentia...

Dream Death

Dissemination

PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2016

Pittsburgh's Dream Death are one of America's oldest doom bands. Their 1987 debut, the primitive Journey Into Mystery, was a shining star o...

Coffins/Ilsa

Split EP

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2016

Some people have all the luck. Consider D.C.-based death-doomers Ilsa, who've scored both a deal with Relapse for a forthcoming full-length...