Toys That Kill – The Citizen Abortion – Review March 22, 2002 Toys That Kill are more, uh, “catchy” wary than loadsa their peers without bein’ “not catchy” or excessively “street punk” or whatever.
Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia – Interview March 22, 2002 An interview with the guitarist Silenoz
Scott Kelly – Spirit Bound Flesh – Review March 15, 2002 For the majority of this 35-minute disc, it’s just Neurosis’ Scott Kelly and his distinctive, raspy voice singing with his acoustic guitar.
Lycia – Compilation Appearances Vol. 2 – Review March 15, 2002 For more than a decade, Lycia has cranked out quality dark ambient music, but there’s a lot of material fans have never heard – until now.
Scholomance – The Immortality Murder – Review March 15, 2002 Scholomance prove that Americans can gut and reconstitute esoteric black metal in the craggy name of Van Der Graaf prog as handily as Norwegians.
Lupine Howl – The Carnivorous Lunar Activities of – Review March 15, 2002 More chaotic than shoegazer, more psychedelic than straight rock, and a hell of a lot more interesting than anything Blur’s put out lately. Or Spiritualized.
Scene Killer – Review March 15, 2002 Solarized, Core, Monster Magnet, Drag Pack, Burnout King, The Lemmings, and Atomic Bitchwax: An East Coast corollary to the Desert Sessions discs.
The Dragons – Rock N Roll Kamikaze – Review March 15, 2002 The Dragons come off here as older tho’ not necessarily wiser, but it’s like they stepped back and looked around a bit since they did Rock like Fuck.
Slipknot – Iowa – Review March 15, 2002 True to the hype, Slipknot have created a meteor shower of extreme sights and sounds, deftly masking a nü metal premise they and Ross helped create.
The Distillers- Sing Sing Death House – Review March 15, 2002 Singer Brody can fuckin’ sing, man, and she lets it rip, reminding you of whatcha always wished Joan Jett or Shirley Manson or fuckin’ anyone’d do.