Kittie – Oracle – Review

April 12, 2002

Kittie have moments of gleaming beauty amidst the predictable, useless, aren’t-they-going-anywhere-with-this? trudge metal. Fashionable, yes, talented, no.

Stroke 9 – Rip It Off – Review

April 12, 2002

“Kick Some Ass,” (in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) rules. I like when bands make fun of shithead fans/bands, especially when the dipshits still don’t get it.

Mastodon – Lifesblood – Review

April 12, 2002

Exquisite technicality embracing neo-Sabbath doominess coupled with eerie melodies of early ’90s death metal, punctuated by Clutch’s down and dirty aesthetics.

System Of A Down – Toxicity – Review

April 12, 2002

Top of the nü metal shitheap. They scream, bellow, and nyah-nyah in falsetto, but throw eight parts into a song, and that’s seven more than the bottomfeeders.

Will Haven – Carpe Diem – Review

April 12, 2002

Nü metal morons and old metal morons both understand that “the kids” will dig Will Haven, and they’re right. Yeah. Hints. Promise. Bubbling. Keep at it kids.

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