Lollipop Magazine

Pistola – Hold for Bliss – Review

May 12, 2005

Debut from a NYC brooding rock band into Tool. With a female singer. Pretty strong, but need to find themselves.

Over Mars – Affliction, Endocrine, Vertigo – Review

May 12, 2005

Sparse, dark, piano tinkling and a guitar noodle that creeps in periphery. The droning thunder is front-loaded, so you can chill by CD’s end.

Kayser – Kayserhof – Review

May 12, 2005

From Sweden, debut, all-star line-up. Members of The Defaced, The Mushroom River Band, and fronted by Spice of Spiritual Beggars.

Judge – What It Meant – Review

May 12, 2005

28-song collection from the ’80s straight-edge giants.

Gods – I See You Through Glass – Review

May 12, 2005

Trendy nü melodic metal, but with a couple members of Zao, who were always better and smarter than their metalcore brethren.

eROTic – Never Sleep Again – Review

May 12, 2005

Industrial metal from Colorado. The pounding best the atmospheric stuff. Cover of Lita Ford’s duet with Ozzy, “Close My Eyes Forever” would rule with more umph.

Electra Kill – The Death of Venus 292 – Review

May 12, 2005

Cyber chaos from suburbanites who really wanna be bad. Getting to industrial by way of Marilyn Manson is like wanting to be a rock band cuz ya like Creed.

Disengage – Application for an Afterlife – Review

May 12, 2005

From Cleveland, third release (last one on Man’s Ruin), not too hardcore roar, not too stoner drone, strong, dry vocals, and a nice, thick, bassy groove.

Bang! Bang! – Electric Sex – Review

May 12, 2005

Trendy, jerky female-fronted new wave punk. Like Missing Persons after a bunch of Rockstar energy drinks. Five-song EP of sexy, kitchy stuff.

Allhelluja – Inferno Music – Review

May 12, 2005

Hatesphere singer belts out metal-tinged stoner rock for a side project with Scarlet Records’ guy on drums. Dirty but dry, not metalcore, not Swedish thrash.