Lollipop Magazine

Battery Cage – World Wide Wasteland – Review

April 4, 2005

Highly-energized EBM laced with industrial guitar and effected vocals reminiscent of both Nivek Ogre and Marilyn Manson. Tyler Newman is half of Informatik.

Bad Wizard – #1 Tonite! – Review

April 4, 2005

Bad Wizard are less artists than craftsmen, a band of men (plus one foxy woman) who work hard to make music that’s solid, dependable, and totally functional.

Atrocity – Atlantis – Review

April 4, 2005

A strange metal album that defies categorization. It might be a bit over-the-top for some, and little hard to follow for others, but Atrocity make it work.

Assemblage 23 – Storm – Review

April 4, 2005

What sets Tom Shear apart from future pop/EBM musicians is his ability let a song breathe and restrain the urge to throw in everything but the kitchen sink.

Wire – Wire on the Box: 1979 – Review

April 4, 2005

You really should know about Wire, especially if you care about any sort of post-whatever rock music being played today. Up there with Can, VU, and The Fall.

Amplified Heat – In for Sin – Review

April 4, 2005

High-energy boogie rock that immediately brings Cactus’s finest moments to mind. Thundering, simple, dumb blues/boogie riffs with the force of a jackhammer.

Amorphis – Far From The Sun – Review

April 4, 2005

Enigmatic lead singer Pasi Koskinen’s swansong is an interesting, not altogether successful, return to heaviness, although it’s more la trip to a new heaviness.

Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns – Review

April 4, 2005

Bloodied but unbowed Viking metal. Man, album after album, these guys crack me up. The Viking lessons never grow tired, and live, Amon Amarth kill with power.

Code Black – Penetration- Review

April 4, 2005

Taking ideas from every Slayer and Metallica album ever recorded and dumbing it down with an unfocused hardcore edge, Penetration goes nowhere.

Candiria – What Doesn’t Kill You – Review

April 4, 2005

Known for combining hip-hop beats, Meshuggah chugs, and Coltrane interludes, Candiria have paired down the intellect for a more immediate, “hooky” approach.