Lollipop Magazine

A Perfect Murder – Unbroken – Review

December 13, 2004

A Perfect Murder’s debut can best be described as “typical” and/or “generic,” with hard-driving strides of metallic goodness peppered throughout the album.

Far – Water & Solutions – Review

December 13, 2004

Water & Solutions embodied a significant era of my life. Watching the reissue’s bonus DVD, I am reminded of how massive their outpouring was onstage.

Heaven Shall Burn – Antigone – Review

December 13, 2004

I championed this band when they unleashed 2002’s Whatever It May Take on Lifeforce, but Antigone just seems to be on autopilot.

Age of Ruin – The Tides of Tragedy – Review

December 13, 2004

The Tides of Tragedy begins forcefully, with the songs showcasing excellent metal riffs intertwined with hardcore-like chugga-chugga riffs, much like Atreyu.

Goatsnake – Trampled Under Hoof – Review

December 13, 2004

This five-song EP (three newbies plus St. Vitus and Black Oak Arkansas covers released on rare comps) comes like four years after the last Goatsnake release.

Days Like These – Charity Burns Green – Review

December 13, 2004

With a sound that resonates long after you’re done listening, Days Like These’s Lobster debut is a spectacle of talented musicianship and surprising maturity.

Velvet Revolver – Contraband – Review

December 13, 2004

Contraband is a fantastic ALBUM, something you’ll want to play from start to finish, not unlike G N’ R’s Appetite For Destruction or the first few STP discs.

Comets On Fire – Blue Cathedral – Review

December 13, 2004

The band have a very firm grasp on what makes psychedelia work. They’re take what could’ve been incidental music and they’ve made it muscular and captivating.

Church Of Misery- The Second Coming – Review

December 13, 2004

This one is tighter, taunter, and truer to the brooding grit-doom of Carn or Rue’s ripping Black Flag bred attack dog rock.

Church Of Misery – Early Works Compilation – Review

December 13, 2004

The two discs are a buncha material recorded from 1997 to 2000, including Taste the Pain and Murder Company, a split with Sheavy, a Trouble cover, and more.