Lollipop Magazine

Behemoth – Demigod – Review

May 16, 2005

Polish black metal. Chugging guitar riffs, lots of Arabic-sounding lead lines, really mushy cookie monster vocals, but the drummer! Hot damn!

The Haunted – rEVOLVEr – Review

April 25, 2005

Peter Dolving is back in the band (he throated the seminal debut), and that improved the lyrics, although his vocals are like any number of thrashers.

Diecast – Tearing Down Your Blue Skies – Review

April 11, 2005

One of the better bands to emerge from the hardcore scene in Boston. Singer Colin Schleifer left, Paul Stoddard joined, and the band signed to Century Media.

Shadows Fall – The War Within – Interview

April 4, 2005

An interview with singer Brian Fair

Borknagar – Epic – Review

April 4, 2005

The intensity of straight-up black metal bands like Mayhem and Immortal, but pushes its boundaries, adding elements of classical romanticism and folk music.

Blind Guardian – Imaginations Through The Looking Glass – Review

March 7, 2005

Finally, a Blind Guardian DVD has arrived, and the band has pulled out all the stops, if not for loading up a DVD, at least for presentation of a live show.

Grave – Fiendish Regression – Review

February 7, 2005

Since the inventive brutality of Hating Life failed to catch on, Grave have been all too eager to return to their phee-phi-pho-phum primitivity.

Unleashed – Sworn Allegiance – Review

January 31, 2005

Blunt, boorish words you can understand, riffs you’ll remember after the smoke’s cleared, production loud and proud, rhythms touched by the hand of chaos.

Napalm Death – Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 – Interview

January 24, 2005

An interview with vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway

Hatesphere – Ballet of the Brute – Review

December 27, 2004

Third album. Denmark’s Hatesphere crank out signature Scando-thrash with an emphasis toward faster, more claustrophobic and intimate American hardcore moshing.