Lollipop Magazine

Tiki Tones – Wilt Disner Presents The Enchanted Tiki Tones – Review

April 1, 1996

Ku, Shag Lono, Lord Wahini and Hana Kokolele offer tips on what instruments to get. The kind of surf that you could very easily get stoned to.

Mr. Mirainga – Review

April 1, 1996

Already dubbed Mamba-Punk/Samba-Core, the tunes are catchy, with powerful bass lines and uncharacteristically non-Brit vocals picking up the slack.

Throttle – Review

April 1, 1996

They’re loud, angry and fast, but weird, too. The chords don’t sound right. They’ve also got this epileptic start-and-stop thing, tight as your little sister.

Mortician – House By The Cemetery – Review

April 1, 1996

Vomit in a toilet bowl and smash your knuckles into something really hard, really fast – it sounds the same, and it’s equally painful.

The Wipers – The Herd – Review

April 1, 1996

Big riffs and spicy leads. It has a bass you can feel through the floor, and drums that, if they were human, would sport lots of tattoos on their beefy arms.

Misanthrope – Theatre Bizarre – Review

April 1, 1996

Moods range from psychotic carnival metal, to Faustian, Skyclad/Sabbat-like musical skits, to Dream Theater-esque progressive otherworldliness.

The Threat – Sacred Ground – Review

April 1, 1996

Eleven plodding, over-reaching, out-dated songs like the ones I used to skip over on the first two Metal Church albums.

Ministry – Filth Pig – Review

April 1, 1996

Ploddingly minimalistic repetition of simple phrases and music that was recorded live instead of taking the time and energy to meticulously craft each song.

The Smugglers – Selling The Sizzle – Review

April 1, 1996

The Smugglers are always good for skipping-school-for-the-beach. There’s nothing better than surf, sun, sand, and drinking and shimmying to punkers in suits.

Melt Banana – It’s In The Pillcase – Review

April 1, 1996

Nails on a chalkboard can’t hold a candle to Melt Banana. Squeaky schizoid abrasiveness was never so much fun.