Earache Records – Page 5 – Lollipop Magazine

December – The Lament Configuration – Review

May 17, 2002

Reminds me of the excitement of first hearing God Forbid, December throttling each song with an incredibly progressive and intellectualized death sense.

Mortiis – The Smell of Rain – Review

May 17, 2002

This falls somewhere between Gothic and industrial music. There is always something familiar about each song, yet there are elements to make it unique.

Rabies Caste – Let the Soul Out and Cut the Vein – Review

March 22, 2002

Rabies Caste is the first modern metal band from Israel to get an international deal with a “big” label like Earache and this trio deserve it.

Mortiis – The Smell of Rain – Review

March 1, 2002

Oh dear Mortiis, what hath thou wrought? Where are your Dungeons & Dragons soundtracks of yore? Why dost thou seek the path of Metropolis Records music?

Cadaver Inc. – Discipline – Review

February 22, 2002

One of the best new death/black metal bands: Technically intense and viciously cold. With fellow Norwegians Zyklon, Cadaver Inc. are leading the way.

Gandalf – Rock Hell – Review

June 2, 2001

Blending Swedish melodic death metal (In Flames-style) with wide-stance AC/DC and Alice Cooper choruses, you have the ultimate metal/rock hybrid.

Cathedral – Endtyme – Review

June 1, 2001

Refusing to write catchy stoner rock anthems, instead preferring art-damaged collages of thick smoke-choked riffs strafed with Dorrian’s nuthouse roar.

Garden of Shadows – Oracle Moon – Review

April 1, 2001

Sounds like someone listened to too much of Death’s Symbolic, to the point where their annoyed family members slipped in The Gathering when no one was looking.

Decapitated – Winds of Creation – Review

April 1, 2001

A four-piece from Poland that sounds like (and worships) fellow countrymen Vader, is the most furiously technical brutal bands I’ve heard in a long-ass time.

The Haunted – Made Me Do It – Interview

April 1, 2001

An interview with guitarist Anders Björler