Chaz Thorndike – Page 10 – Lollipop Magazine

Welt – at the Rat – Review

November 1, 1995

Jason Cooper is a husky, expressive guy with a gravelly voice and good range. He can sing nice melodies without sounding like a whining pussy.

Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre – Review

November 1, 1995

I seem to recall liking their first album, but The Carnival Bizarre is just gloomy post-Sabbath cheese with a metal growler.

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.

Grinch – Eden – Review

October 1, 1995

When the vocals step out of the throaty any-note-will-do approach, the melodies are haunting and gorgeously ugly.

Brujeria – Raza Odiada – Review

October 1, 1995

Massive choruses of rebellion, revelry and rioting, gunfire, frantic drumming, mile-thick guitars, and full lyric sheets that aren’t in English.

Warrior Soul – Space Age Playboys – Interview

October 1, 1995

An interview with vocalist Kory Clarke

Battlegrounds – Review

September 1, 1995

The new movement is Gabber. It’s harder, faster, and more vile and violent than the PC raves your mom and dad are now letting you go to.

Central Nervous System – Reality Check – Review

September 1, 1995

Big, heavy guitars and bass, Slayer-style drums with dance-y hi-hat, and growling vocals. Credits don’t mention the nut lobbing samples like grenades. Woah!

Women of Sodom – with God Lives Underwater, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Lords of Acid at Avalon – Review

September 1, 1995

With every show, the music gets better and the costumes more elaborate. The skits are comic and erotic at the same time, questing to leave no kink unexplored.

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult – with God Lives Underwater, Women of Sodom, Lords of Acid at Avalon – Review

September 1, 1995

Somehow the disco beats, billows of smoke, and dancing guy/girl vocalists’ distorted crooning didn’t impress me. Some claimed I missed the gorgeous subtleties