Articles by Chris Ayers

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  Vader

  Blood / Reign Forever World

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Possibly the only Polish metal band still active after nearly 20 years, Vader are to Europe as Cannibal Corpse and Deicide are to America....

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  Various

  The Combined Stupidity Of Spiteful Men

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  UK label House of Stairs releases this colossal three-way split in order to further the momentum of thinking man’s hardcore, popularised by...

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  Cavity

  Supercollider

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  After giving up the ghost last year, Cavity’s first posthumous release is actually a reissue of 1999’s out of print full-length on the defu...

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  Foe

  Arm Yourself With Clairvoyance

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Every so often, an unknown band pops up and starts craning necks. Fortunately for London’s jazzy instrumentalists Foe, they are firmly ensc...

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  Scissorfight

  Deathchants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes Vol. 2

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  This "new” EP from these New Hampshire ape-men isn’t exactly so: its six tracks are culled from last year’s import-only American Cloven Hoo...

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  Spirit Caravan

  The Last Embrace

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Back in the old days, the term "wino” conjured up an image of a grizzled old sot, down on his luck and carrying his lunch in a greasy brown...

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  Destruction

  Metal Discharge

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  The fact that Destruction are back with yet another platter of ho-hum ’80s t(h)rash is not surprising. Sporting a Spïnal Tap-like member ro...

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  Of Death

  Build a Bridge and Get Over It

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Remember those old Memorex commercials in which the singer broke wine glasses with her voice? Or Daryl Hannah in the movie Splash as the me...