Lollipop Magazine

Twisted Tower Dire – Netherworlds – Review

April 20, 2007

Hipster classic metal bands are doing it: Play it loose and a little drunken, but Twisted Tower Dire have the deep-dish metal knowledge that slays trendiness.

Obituary – Frozen Alive – Review

April 20, 2007

Recorded the same night as a Grave DVD, this is just as clear, well-produced, and packed full of crushing death metal. Live Grave, it’s the band’s first DVD.

Benea Reach – Monument Bineothan – Review

April 20, 2007

Ex-Extol guitarist Christer Espevoll’s new outfit, Benea Reach. Monument Bineothan is a stainless steel, massive pillar of majestic metal.

Age of Nemesis – Terra Incognita – Review

April 20, 2007

Hungarian prog metal that hits hard, riffy and rhythmically, with technically brilliant vocals from Zoltan Kiss who pulls it off without sounding too non-Anglo.

Botch – 061502 – Review

April 6, 2007

In nine years (two full-lengths, an EP, and several singles), this quartet took hardcore to the next level. 061502 presents the last show in the band’s career.

Dominici – 03 A Trilogy Part 2 – Review

April 6, 2007

Charlie Dominici, former frontman of Dream Theater, makes a prominent comeback. Powerful melodic progressive metal with incredible musicianship and songwriting.

Echoes of Eternity – The Forgotten Goddess – Review

April 6, 2007

A pure, unadorned, dreamy voice placed over quick-picked progressive metal that’s so precise that it’s damn near a math metal version of Children of Bodom.

Stuck Mojo – Southern Born Killers – Review

March 30, 2007

Bonz has been replaced by Lord Nelson, and beneath the new guy’s old school rapping, you get Rich’s soul-replenishing croon and his huge, grinding riffs.

Stolen Babies – There Be Squabbles Ahead – Review

March 30, 2007

Describing Stolen Babies as “prog-pop-cabaret-thrash-quirky-Goth-rock” provides enough space to add mambo and cha-cha-cha and still have plenty of legroom.

Fear My Thoughts – Vulcannus – Review

March 30, 2007

Fear My Thoughts pack and compact a pile of forceful, punishing Machine Head-esque riffing into each of these diamond-blinding constructs.