June 2001 – Page 19 – Lollipop Magazine

Crest of Darkness – Project Regeneration – Review

June 1, 2001

Part of the new wave of high-tech black metal, along with Satyricon and Dodheimsgard, but they blend in more thrash and epic metal elements.

Creeper Lagoon – Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday – Review

June 1, 2001

Mainstream songwriting and a slick-ass production have turned these once-bedroom four-trackers into total radio hunks.

Church of Misery – Master of Brutality – Review

June 1, 2001

These guys really have a thing going for round-eye serial killers and very heavy doom metal topped with a course, gritty this-side-of-grind vocalist.

Chinchilla – Madness – Review

June 1, 2001

Tragically stupid name for a pretty decent heavy metal band. I had a chinchilla once. Absolutely useless thing, but cute. Woulda made a nice pair of gloves.

Children of Bodom – Follow the Reaper – Review

June 1, 2001

Kinda thin-sounding. The solos and fills are all right upfront (and that’s the main reason to fall at this band’s feet), but there’s just nothing brutal here.

Earth Crisis – Last of the Sane – Review

June 1, 2001

Trademark Earth Crisis crunch reduced to a joke when vocalist Karl Buechner childishly croons “Paint it Black.”

Chemlab – Suture – Review

June 1, 2001

The three EP tracks are old school industrial and worth a few spins, and for those into remixes of more popular/less interesting material, there’s plenty.

Cause For Alarm – Nothing Ever Dies 1982-99 – Review

June 1, 2001

Cause For Alarm never strayed from their fast, furious, and political identity throughout their two decades of existence, even as the band changed members.

Championship Motocross 2001 – Review

June 1, 2001

Choose from two classes of motorcycles, 20 tracks, and 28 drivers for either a single race or a championship mode, where a series of races are linked together.

Cathedral – Endtyme – Review

June 1, 2001

Refusing to write catchy stoner rock anthems, instead preferring art-damaged collages of thick smoke-choked riffs strafed with Dorrian’s nuthouse roar.