Skiploader – Anxious, Restless – Review July 1, 1995 Sometimes they’re quick tempoed, sometimes they repeat the chorus over and over again, and sometimes they find that feedback works better than chords.
Skin Game – Review July 1, 1995 Looming music, like foreshadowing in a Hitchcock film. Dark, powerful, impressive.
Shelter – Mantra – Review July 1, 1995 From rap-to-melodic-core to all-out speedkills punk to whoa-whoa hardcore; Shelter does it beautifully.
Sheer Terror – Love Songs for the Unloved – Review July 1, 1995 Prong’s Tommy Victor produced this beast to sound like a Neanderthal’s mud fight. Clods of sound are lobbed and fast-balled at you.
Septic Flesh – Esoptron – Review July 1, 1995 The melodies of the guitars and keyboards add a particular atmosphere. Add the gruff and clean vocals of Spiros and you have the perfect melodrama.
Second Balcony Jump – Wired On Thought – Review July 1, 1995 Catchy rock with good grooves and sharp hooks. Gonna be great live; there’s a lot of energy in here.
Strapping Young Lad – Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing – Interview July 1, 1995 An interview with Devin Townsend
Alligator Gun – Onehundredpercentfreak – Interview July 1, 1995 An interview with vocalist/guitarist Bill Couture
Arsenals – Stomp – Review June 1, 1995 ad production, worse songs, and few hooks. There are plenty of unsigned ska bands who could “stomp” these guys into the ground.