February 2002 – Page 36 – Lollipop Magazine

Beauty in Darkness – Vol. 5 – Review

February 22, 2002

18 songs, 78 minutes, there’s creepy, brutal, eerie, sexy, and every combination you can imagine, and plenty you can’t until you hear these dark masters.

Sixer – Saving Grace – Review

February 22, 2002

More sore throat street punk ‘cept with a better sense of melody than most’n’a heartfelt debt to older, less fashionable “reactionary” rock’n’roll.

Burnt By The Sun – Review

February 22, 2002

All the enthusiasm and none of the focus that grindcore/tech metal requires, just like The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, every band on Hydra Head.

Sisthema – The Fourth Discontinuity – Review

February 22, 2002

They like man/machine topics, favor “cold industrial” production and atmospherics, and the drummer is pretty bad-ass.

Burning Airlines – Identikit – Review

February 22, 2002

These guys still rock your fucking ass. Just because they’re intelligent and superior musicians doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten how to connect emotionally.

Anyone Can Play Radiohead – Review

February 22, 2002

What is the sound of 10,000 record buyers shaking their heads in disbelief?

Sirius – Spectral Transition – Dimension Sirius – Review

February 22, 2002

Millennial black metal, littered with blastbeats, monster keys/symphonics, demon growls’n’snarling, and all the ripping guitar a metalhead could ask for.

Tiger Army – II: Power of Moonlite – Review

February 15, 2002

Glenn Danzig could croon with balls; Tiger Army, well, they can simply croon… Lyrics tend towards the Gothic and pretentious.

The Orb – The Remix Project: Auntie Aubrey’s Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty – Review

February 15, 2002

Essentially, The Orb’s new remix CD is masturbation on a big budget, a lot of jerky motion that ultimately goes nowhere.

Naglfar – Ex Infertis – Review

February 15, 2002

Not exactly toppling Cradle of Filth or nuthin’, more kinda chumming up with Darkthrone in the dirtier end of the pool.