March 2004 – Page 10 – Lollipop Magazine

Pansy Division – Total Entertainment! – Review

March 1, 2004

The self-imposed label of “queer punk” is a little shaky. Total Entertainment! is about as punk as The Go-Gos were. Still, the guys have come far as songwriters.

Rickshaw – Sonic Overload – Review

March 1, 2004

Wife-approved kickass for Backyard Babies, Electric Frankenstein, The Hellacopters, Roadsaw, and Supersuckers fans.

Norther – Mirror of Madness – Review

March 1, 2004

Oft considered a Children of Bodom clone, Norther actually don’t have their act together like the frosty, unit-shifting Finns.

Nora – Dreamers and Deadmen – Review

March 1, 2004

The New Jersey natives have always put on great live shows, and for the most part, captured an honest, raw, live feel to each and every recording.

Nightrage – Sweet Vengeance – Review

March 1, 2004

Sweet Vengeance is merely yet another exercise in Swedish melodic death metal; a hold-over between Dark Tranquillity and Soilwork’s albums.

Neurosis & Jarboe – Review

March 1, 2004

Jarboe sings atop and within the continual whir and throb with a clean and pure (although varying) tone of death and redemption.

MxPx – Before Everything and After – Review

March 1, 2004

MXPX has once again worked the same magic that has kept them going strong for the past 10 years. Hell, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Mugwart – Discography – Review

March 1, 2004

Trashy recording with live as fuck drumming supporting a mid-tempo power surge like a six-inch blade covered with dried raccoon guts jammed between your ribs.

Moonspell – The Antidote – Review

March 1, 2004

A record of high relief, offering crunching, sinister chords jarred by modern gloomy passages that recall the Paradise Lost albums of recent years.

Mercury Tide – Why? – Review

March 1, 2004

Why? doesn’t have a hope of capturing Sentenced or Rapture or Daylight Dies because the production is quite featureless, not to mention they’ve got a power metal guy at the helm.