Lollipop Magazine

BulletBoys – Behind the Orange Curtain – Review

January 1, 2008

They didn’t have the ballad to put them on the hair metal map, so BulletBoys never achieved notoriety. It’s unfortunate: Marq Torien has one hell of a voice.

Thy Disease – Rat Age – Review

November 20, 2006

From Poland, four records deep, got some keyboards mixed into the death metal.

Demise – Torture Garden – Review

November 20, 2006

Crash Music must’ve picked up a bunch of Polish death metal bands at a yard sale or something. Three records in, mixed and mastered by guitar hero James Murphy.

Acumen Nation – Anticore – Review

September 1, 2006

Always liked the fuck-off attitude of this Chicago band. Part industrial metal, part programming terrorist duckfart, with snarl and skillz to spare.

Twin Method – The Volume of Self – Review

July 14, 2006

It takes guts ‘n’ guile to make textbook nü metal these days, but that’s what this irritating Liverpool band is up to.

Flotsam and Jetsam – Dreams of Death – Review

February 24, 2006

It’s playing in the background, and I’ve yet to be engaged in any way. It’s not so bad I’ll take it off, but it’s not good enough to ever play again.

Enforsaken – Sinner’s Intuition – Review

January 1, 2006

Solid Swedish-style thrash, not death with cookie monster vocals, so while not exceptional, at least they don’t make you laugh all the way to the trash barrel.

Embraze – Katharsis – Review

May 26, 2005

Singer’s got a big dorky-sounding Gothic voice for the plodding songs, and the thrashers sounds like 100 other bands. Not much to work with here.

Metalium – Demons of Insanity – Chapter Five – Review

May 26, 2005

The record is called Demons of Insanity, and the cover is the Conan shit I used to draw in high school. In the ’80s. Yeah, it’s heavy metal.

Myon – Ghost in Paradise – Review

March 28, 2005

Around for a decade, this is their second effort (had a name change in there), first was released by Noise. This is too mid-tempo warbling prog metal for me.