Lollipop Magazine

Players Club – Coextinction – Review

December 9, 2005

Lower East Side scum rock/noise rock of the early ’90s jammed through a metalized frame and heart-tugging murder melodies. What hardnut rock oughta be.

Manntis – Sleep in Your Grave – Review

December 9, 2005

Breakdown chaos, thundering rampages, and dense thrash with hints of Swedish melodic death, but no dueling solos to be found.

The Generators – Excess Betrayal… and our Dearly Departed – Review

December 2, 2005

The lost record, Europe-only release in 2003. Fiend is helped by Curtis ex-TKO, who knows his shit. MUCH more blazing rock’n’roll than the street punk I recall.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre – We Are the Radio – Review

December 2, 2005

The main voice on these five songs belongs to a female, an unidentified newcomer. The songs themselves are firmly within the BJTM continuum.

Novadriver – Deeper High – Review

December 2, 2005

Packing down mid-tempo arena stompers like the children of the Nuge/Aerosmith ’76 tour, the bad-ass Green River side of grunge, and snot-thick stonesisms.

Judas Priest – Angel of Retribution – Review

December 2, 2005

Brings to the table eccentricity (gone since Hell Bent For Leather), dimension, a whole new persona to this band of many faces and misplaces over the years.

Iron Maiden – The Essential – Review

December 2, 2005

Timeless metal, with ageless melodies and divine human creativity that challenges the heavens. The Essential is for either a complete newbie or a completist.

Honky – Balls Out Inn – Review

December 2, 2005

Building on the foundations of fellow Texans ZZ Top (a stranger band than you might realize) and hints of the Dicks and brothers-by-buggery, Butthole Surfers.

Headtrip Superstar – Beautiful – Review

December 2, 2005

Poor old groove, abused and over-used by the nü metal, so bands who base their sound around the kind of stomping grooves can’t help but sound a little dated.

A Day To Remember – And Their Name Was Treason – Review

December 2, 2005

As long as nü metalcore has clean singing parts, why not push the envelope as far as A Day To Remember have, just to see the looks on people’s faces?