Lollipop Magazine

The Eyeliners – Sealed with a Kiss – Review

April 12, 2002

Three tough ’50s-style chickies who look good in leather pants and leopard prints and crank out 12 tracks in 27 minutes of classic Ramones three-chord-punk.

Kittie – Oracle – Review

April 12, 2002

Kittie have moments of gleaming beauty amidst the predictable, useless, aren’t-they-going-anywhere-with-this? trudge metal. Fashionable, yes, talented, no.

Kekal – The Painful Experience – Review

April 12, 2002

The band’s from Indonesia and combine black, thrash, and melodic death metal with traditional galloping heavy metal in a way that, uh, ya just can’t summarize.

Stroke 9 – Rip It Off – Review

April 12, 2002

“Kick Some Ass,” (in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) rules. I like when bands make fun of shithead fans/bands, especially when the dipshits still don’t get it.

Suicide Machines – Steal This Record – Review

April 12, 2002

These Detroit punkers always had the tunes and the rage to go beyond the upbeat deathtrap. This is deceptively octane-fueled radio punkpop, borderline rock.

Mastodon – Lifesblood – Review

April 12, 2002

Exquisite technicality embracing neo-Sabbath doominess coupled with eerie melodies of early ’90s death metal, punctuated by Clutch’s down and dirty aesthetics.

M-16 – Canciones Escritas En El Exilo – Review

April 12, 2002

From The Dominican Republic, sing entirely in Spanish, have a distinctive percussion sound/style similar to early Sep/Overdose, with hints of greatness.

System Of A Down – Toxicity – Review

April 12, 2002

Top of the nü metal shitheap. They scream, bellow, and nyah-nyah in falsetto, but throw eight parts into a song, and that’s seven more than the bottomfeeders.

Diabolical Masquerade – Death’s Design – Review

April 12, 2002

As far as pure vision and scope go, this is the most breath-taking, ambitious, and experimental death metal album this year… and it’s only a side project!

In Thy Dreams – Highest Beauty – Review

April 12, 2002

Funny, Swedes like these guys helped push the whole melodic death metal thing forward, and yet these guys in particular always seem a pace behind the leaders.