Lollipop Magazine

Malevolent Creation – Warkult – Interview

October 21, 2005

An interview with guitarist Phil Fasciana

Diary of Dreams – Menschfiend – Review

October 21, 2005

Longtime Goth/industrial favorite Diary of Dreams with their eighth release, Menschfiend, a worthy successor to the conceptual 2004 masterpiece Nigredo.

Crowbar – Lifesblood for the Downtrodden – Review

October 21, 2005

This is truly Southern stoner rock: Mostly mid-tempo jams with trippy, gruff, echo-heavy vocals, and riffs that breathe and stretch out well.

Corrosion of Conformity – In the Arms of God – Review

October 21, 2005

Shaggy shambling, retaining of all those cool COC traits, the doom, the stoner, the sludge, the blues, the creaking Clutch-ness of the band’s best groovy tunes.

Burden of Grief – Fields of Salvation – Review

October 21, 2005

By-the-numbers, European, thrash/death metal. Fast, riffy, with lots of melodic, dueling lead guitar lines and gruff vocals. Nothing new or all that special.

At The Drive-In – This Station Is Non-Operational – Review

October 21, 2005

As a retrospective, This Station Is Non-Operational decently chronicles the band’s growth from nascent emocore to writhing, salsa-infested post-punk hybrid.

Astarte – Sirens – Review

October 21, 2005

Thanks for showing me that women can play and write crappy, go nowhere, repetitive, uninteresting, unoriginal, faux black metal garbage as well as any man.

Alkaline Trio – Crimson – Review

October 21, 2005

The performances, placement of hooks, and vocal phrasing are all blindingly confident. The band have learned to reach beyond the meat-n-potatoes of punky pop.

Acid King – III – Review

October 21, 2005

Pick any song from III and it’d sound just as at home on any previous Acid King release.