Lollipop Magazine

Abiotic – To Burgeon and Languish – Music Stream

December 24, 2012

“To Burgeon and Languish” will assault your ears with a handful of death metal vocal styles, a few solos, and a billion highly technical riffs.

My Dying Bride – Kneel till Doomsday – Music Stream

December 20, 2012

Doom titans My Dying Bride hit all the right notes on 2009’s crushingly bleak For Lies I Sire, and its proper follow up treads along that same darkened path.

Bison b.c. – Anxiety Puke/Lovelessness – Music Stream

December 19, 2012

Dark Ages was a supremely confident slice of sludge metal. Perhaps emboldened by the praise it received, the band gets little adventurous on Lovelessness.

As I Lay Dying – Cauterize – Music Stream

December 18, 2012

Metalcore stalwarts As I Lay Dying make good, sometimes not great, melodic metal. Their catalog feels a little clogged with solid rather than stellar material.

Satan’s Wrath – Between Belial and Satan – Music Stream

December 17, 2012

Greece’s Satan’s Wrath play excellent blackened thrash metal.

Aeon – Aeons Black – Music Stream

December 14, 2012

These Swedes unleash a lurching death metal plague, one that creeps up from your toes to your eyeballs until you’re just a quivering, blackened mess.

Downfall of Gaia – In the Rivers Bleak – Music Stream

December 12, 2012

A thoughtful, expansive take on metal, one that seems perfectly in sync with the foggy, monochrome mountain-scape of the album artwork.

Texas In July – Bed of Nails – Music Stream

December 7, 2012

Once past the disappointment that this isn’t an Alice Cooper cover, “Bed of Nails” is a pretty cool slice of lean metalcore from this young Pennsylvania crew.

Doro – Raise Your Fist In The Air – Music Stream

December 4, 2012

Still hot, still German, still posing like a metal warrior on the cover, still blasting out confident anthems with no ironic nods or apology.

Devin Townsend Project – Lucky Animals – Music Stream

November 30, 2012

“Lucky Animals” from his latest, Epicloud, continues the bizarre carnival. Are we really hearing Pink Floyd, Mr. Bungle, and Strapping Young Lad all at once?