Lollipop Magazine

Sub Zero – Happiness Without Peace – Review

September 1, 1996

Good, clean, slamming fun with positive messages, sing-a-long choruses, and a few funny, sampled intros.

Blood Duster – Yeest – Review

September 1, 1996

A gloriously disgusting disc filled with fist-fucking, puke, stinky pussy, and raping the young, the old, and assorted barnyard animals.

Bathory – Blood on Ice – Review

September 1, 1996

Containing the best and worst elements of powermetal and doom circa ’88 and ’95, this album is a gem and a turd at the same time.

The Almighty – Just Add Life – Review

August 1, 1996

All the mohawks and tattoos in the world can’t disguise the fact that this is a rock band.

Carcass – Swansong – Review

August 1, 1996

Heartwork makes Swansong look like a limp dick. Carcass chose not to further their technical abilities, but to rehash every Maiden and Priest riff available.

Bruce Dickinson – Skunkworks – Review

June 1, 1996

He’s still got the bellowing from the Iron Maiden heyday, he still has that ’80s trademark vibrato, but he’s singing reasonably contemporary rock.

Jackyl – Night of the Living Dead – Review

May 1, 1996

It’s live. Imagine a Paul Stanley/James Brown hybrid singing for an AC/DC/Molly Hatchet tribute band.

Sadness – Danteferno – Review

May 1, 1996

Simple horror piano, mountainous powerchords, gongs, timpanis, bellowing melodies like those you might expect from a tavern filled with burly, drunk warriors.

Overkill – The Killing Kind – Review

May 1, 1996

While the second half may slump into rebel stomp mediocrity, weighty Metallica-esque conceptualizations, and a ballad, the record starts off strong, really.

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.