Lollipop Magazine

Armed For Apocalypse – The Starting Line Is A Trip Wire – Music Stream

November 4, 2013

Circle pits and hair whips, declaring: “All we want to do is rock.” Chunky, meat-and-potatoes modern metal.

Ayreon – The Theory of Everything – Music Stream

October 29, 2013

Their Wiki describes them as “rock opera, prog metal, prog rock, space rock, symphonic metal, folk metal, and power metal.” Is that all?

Turisas – For Your Own Good – Music Stream

September 6, 2013

Their faces smeared with their trademark red and black face paint, the Finnish folk metal warriors of Turisas ride into battle again.

Devildriver – The Appetite – Music Stream

September 5, 2013

Devildriver’s best, 2007’s The Last Kind Words, wasn’t that different from great Devildriver records before and after it, but it trimmed all the fat.

Watain – The Child Must Die – Music Stream

August 27, 2013

Sweden’s black metal hellions Watain have been on a fearsome tear. The Wild Hunt finds them expanding their ambition with ballads and other left turns.

James LaBrie – Back on the Ground – Music Stream

August 23, 2013

Prog metal superstar vocalist James LaBrie – who’s going on 22+ years with Dream Theater – is back with his third solo album, Impermanent Resonance.

Revocation – The Hive – Music Stream

August 20, 2013

Unlike most “tech metal” bands, Boston’s Revocation actually have some great hooks and songs that stick with you.

Battlecross – Force Fed Lies – Music Stream

August 16, 2013

Thrash metal, pure and simple. Battlecross wastes no time ripping your face off with polka beats and riffs in thirds (Slayer, Dark Angel, everyone since).

Amon Amarth – Father of the Wolf – Music Stream

August 15, 2013

Amon Amarth are the AC/DC of Viking death metal. They found and perfected a style, and they rarely deviate from it.

Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood – Music Stream

August 13, 2013

I liked the glammified sounds used to spice up 2005’s Are You Dead Yet?, but most fans felt the opposite, so the next two COB albums dialed up the brutality.