Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Cathedral

  The Serpent's Gold

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  With such a surplus of quality material, making a single-disc best-of for UK’s doom pioneers Cathedral is a daunting task at best, but Eara...

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  Floor

  Dove

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Last year marked the debut, self-titled full-length of the long-running, indie doom outfit Floor, who until that point had released only se...

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  Ocean Chief

  The Oden Sessions

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Halfway between Gothenburg and Stockholm, Mjölby is a small riverside town in southeast Sweden that is now known for doom metal’s Ocean Chi...

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  Chuck Schuldiner

  Zero Tolerance

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Before Death founder Chuck Schuldiner succumbed to cancer at the end of 2001, he was well into the recording of When Machine And Man Collid...

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  Sunn O)))

  White 2

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  What was begun nearly a decade ago in the short-lived doom group Thorr’s Hammer is now built upon exponentially by Sunn O))). At the core o...

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  Vehemence

  Helping The World To See

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  You can’t judge a book by its cover, unless it’s a metal album. With eye-popping cover art by the famous Wes Benscoter (Mortician, Slayer,...

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  Fucking Am

  Gold

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  After 2001’s collaborative Double Exposure by the Trans Champs, the Fucking Am were destined to be. Starring the Fucking Champs multi-instr...

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  Black Sabbath

  Black Box: The Complete Black Sabbath 1970-1978

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  After years of fervent anticipation of band-sanctioned remasters, this mammoth eight-CD/one-DVD box set compiles all eight Ozzy Osbourne-er...