Lollipop Magazine

Edge of Sanity – Review

May 1, 1996

Crimson is death metal, but with more creative lyrical composition and inventive, if not completely amazing, songsmithing.

Memento Mori – La Danse Macabre – Review

May 1, 1996

Imagine an Yngwie student chopping up those scales to a sterile progressive power metal wank littered with meaty guitar hooks and dickless warbling vocals.

Divine Sin – Winterland – Review

April 1, 1996

The depths of the Swedish woods produce a thrashy powermetal band with both Nordic tribal influences and deathy growls.

Cemetery – Sundown – Review

April 1, 1996

I don’t know why they want to be Filter, but if they keep not doing what they’re good at, perhaps they’ll succeed in being a second-rate flash-in-the-pan.

Respect – Despair – Review

February 1, 1996

Spooky, orchestral pipe organ sounds come together with roaring guitars, and the result is something unique and powerful. Beautifully bizarre.

Morgana LeFay – Sanctified – Review

November 1, 1995

The rock/metal vocals remind me too much of late ’80s hard rock. Enjoy banging your heads to this one on the way to the mall.

Lake of Tears – Headstones – Review

November 1, 1995

I was going to write this off as ignorable doom metal with too few innovations, but “Sweetwater” was actually good.

Bathory – Octagon – Review

November 1, 1995

Still has the hyperspeed attack, with cheesy lyrics about bleeding, bludgeoning, evil, and madness, mixed in with Judas-Priest-recorded-in-a-sewer-pipe metal.