Lollipop Magazine

Groovie Ghoulies – Fun in the Dark – Review

June 1, 1999

They play simple riffs, are obsessed with graveyards, aliens, and all kinds of ghouls, witches, and zombies, and yet theirs is the CD you wanna hear again.

Nobodys – Generation XXX – Review

June 1, 1999

Like Short Songs for Short Attention Spans and The Smell of Victory before it, Generation XXX has many, many 30-60 second rants set to a couple chords.

AmeriMart – Part One – Fiction

June 1, 1999

“If my husband and I come to your showroom,” she wondered with rare caution, “and we like what we see, how much is it to join?”

New Eden – Obscure Master Plan – Review

June 1, 1999

Evidently, some guy started New Eden, joined Steel Prophet for a couple albums, then thought it’d be a swell idea to resurrect his old band. I disagree.

Scorn – (Anamnesis): 1994-97 – Review

June 1, 1999

An album of rare and previously unreleased material, ranging from 1994 to 1997 (when he went off the deep end with his nightmare, ambient twitches and gurgles).

New American Shame – Review

June 1, 1999

Another round of “Ballroom Blitz,” “Born to be Wild,” and “American Woman” covers loom on the horizon. The echoes of the last round have only recently faded.

Sam Black Church – The Dark Comedy – Review

June 1, 1999

SBC has had a long ride, and the dark mood and scathing humor can be found in various ripping songs on The Black Comedy.

Coroner’s Corner – Vampire Film that Don’t Suck – Column

June 1, 1999

One of the longest enduring themes in the horror movie genre has been the vampire film. There always is a large audience attracted to all things vampirific.

Sacred Steel – Wargods of Metal – Review

June 1, 1999

You don’t have to be a genius to spot an ’80s powermetal leftover, no better aged.

Sacramentum – The Black Destiny – Review

June 1, 1999

Further distancing themselves from Dissection, Sacramentum have fused an old-school death and thrash attack to their distinctive melodic dementia.