Reviews – Page 54 – Lollipop Magazine

Freakangel – Let It All End – Review

July 1, 2012

“It’s an album about how brain-dead we act in this dying world, how we have lost faith in ourselves and how we prefer to believe in television and pseudo-Gods.”

Exumer – Fire & Damnation – Review

July 1, 2012

German thrashers Exumer are from the old school, having shredded mightily during the late ’80s.

Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity – Review

July 1, 2012

“A Living, Breathing Piece of Defecating Meat” is among the many lean, focused tracks on Cattle Decapitation’s recent album, Monolith of Inhumanity.

Allegaeon – Formshifter – Review

July 1, 2012

“Colorado Kings of Melodic Metal” might seem like a lofty title to hoist on a new band, but Allegaeon is doing their best to live up to the hype.

Alien Vampires – Clubbers Die Younger – Review

July 1, 2012

Louder, faster, harder: Upfront industrial dance full of distorted noise, vibrating bass-drums, hypnotic turbo beats, and provocative, harsh vocals.

Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage – Review

June 29, 2012

L’Enfant Sauvage is no one-trick pony. It’s a beast from beginning to end, and one of its best traits is its efficiency.

Dragon’s Dogma – Review

June 15, 2012

Dynamic, engaging combat that feels more like an action game than the basic, rough-around-the-edges battles gamers are used to in RPGs that are this ambitious.

Author & Punisher – Ursus Americanus – Review

June 1, 2012

The dystopian mecha-future that Fear Factory and Sarah Connor tried to warn us about finally has a soundtrack.

Matt Skiba and the Sekrets – Babylon – Review

June 1, 2012

Matt Skiba has a history of making great punk pop as frontman of Alkaline Trio, so it should come as no surprise that his winning streak continues on Babylon.

Black God – II – Review

June 1, 2012

Members of Endpoint, By The Grace of God, Black Cross, Coliseum, Initial Records, Young Widows. Dirty rock/hardcore, in case you weren’t paying attention.