Lollipop Magazine

Zyklon – Aeon – Review

March 8, 2004

Samoth and Destructhor have created a record where the songs have self-contained logic, the guitar tones are robust and bottom-heavy, and where Trym’s drum vibe is thick and warm.

Yob – Catharsis – Review

March 8, 2004

These three Portland basement-dwellers explore thrilling new chasms of the labyrinth that folks call doom metal.

Emperor – Emperial Live Ceremony – Review

April 19, 2002

While there’s the usual chaotic quick-cutting to confuse you, even just straight-on shots of the bald-headed’n’goateed singer, Ihsahn, are pretty scary.

Sirius – Spectral Transition – Dimension Sirius – Review

February 22, 2002

Millennial black metal, littered with blastbeats, monster keys/symphonics, demon growls’n’snarling, and all the ripping guitar a metalhead could ask for.

Killing Machine – Review

June 3, 2001

It’s a cool thing when grizzled veterans of the metal wars collide and try their hand at the power metal they themselves had a hand in creating in the ’80s.

Extreme Noise Terror – Being and Nothing – Review

June 1, 2001

Forever the most appropriately named grindcore band, Extreme Noise Terror hasn’t changed much since the heyday of mid-’80s England.

Zyklon – World ov Worms – Interview

June 1, 2001

An interview with guitarist Zamoth

Peccatum – Amor Fati – Review

April 1, 2001

Self-indulgent, non-linear, impossible to grasp, shapeshifting, and more of an expressionistic exercise than any kind of shared trip with the listener.

Thou Shalt Suffer – Somnium- Review

June 1, 2000

Ihsahn and Samoth began Thou Shalt Suffer before Emperor. Some scary/beautiful moments of traditional classical, but it’s really just a guy experimenting.

Peccatum – Oh, My Regrets – Review

June 1, 2000

Like Celtic Frost did on Into the Pandemonium, Peccatum accomplish the same eerie vibe, throwing in some blasting black metal riffs to add to the confusion.