Lollipop Magazine

Lake of Tears – Forever Autumn – Review

January 1, 2000

Wonderfully sad easy listening music, with keyboards, piano and a still softly beating heart of crashy rock’n’roll drums and underground power chords.

Crimson Midwinter – Random Chaos – Review

June 1, 1999

Extremely thorny, prickly and crisp black metal with brilliant execution, but vocals mixed far back. All the better to hear this knock ’em dead drummer.

Lothlorien – The Primal Event – Review

June 1, 1999

The Primal Event displays a band smack in the middle of a feeding pit, populated by acts fusing black metal, death metal, and traditional power metal.

World of Silence – Mindscapes – Review

September 1, 1998

These lads listen to Dream Theater and Marillion, and it shows.

Auberon – The Tale of Black – Review

September 1, 1998

Hmm, I’m intrigued… I never thought to mix Kreator and prog rock. Quite an interesting, if odd, mixture.

Edge of Sanity – Cryptic – Review

April 1, 1998

Dan Swäno is producing and doing solo work instead of impressing us with shredding riffs, dazzling solos, and scalpel-sharp production in Edge of Sanity.

Fleshcrawl – Bloodred Massacre – Review

March 1, 1998

Growl-by-numbers death metal. Brutal and powerfully produced by Peter Tägtgren. A steady blur of what might as well be the same song.

Edge of Sanity – Infernal – Review

September 1, 1997

Perhaps it’s unfair to doubt EOS’ authenticity as a death band simply because they can actually write and perform better than most in the genre.

Cemetary – Last Confessions – Review

September 1, 1997

Tight, melodic, and only occasionally falling into prog/powermetal silliness. I finally get an inkling of why people like this band, and then they break up.

Necrophobic – Spawned by Evil – Review

September 1, 1996

With Slayer’s “Die by the Sword,” I did an about-face. Really nice job. Covers of Venom’s “Nightmare” and Bathory’s “Enter the Eternal Fire” follow.