Lollipop Magazine

Aesthetische – Nachtbrenner – Music Stream

July 31, 2013

Aghast View and Biopsy side project returns with a 15 track release, few new songs, bunch of reworks. EBM, pure and simple.

Kant Kino – Father Worked In Industry – Music Stream

July 29, 2013

Combining cold distortion of ’90s-style dark industrial with the anthemic synthpop of 2000’s faves like Apoptygma Berzerk, including chillingly female vocals.

Bottom – MMXII EP – Music Stream

July 5, 2013

Bottom has always been heavy and dark, but not like this! 2013 Bottom leans more Melvins/Blag Flag, with huge slabs of guitar fuzz to get their point across.

Mother of God – Anthropos – Music Stream

March 8, 2013

Metallic stoner rock riffery meets heavy grunge soulful/sorrowful vocals. There’s enough Mastodian cosmic swirl and thrust so it’s not duh-metal.

Five Horse Johnson – The Taking of Blackheart – Music Stream

March 7, 2013

Southern rock swagger, harmonica-drenched, dusty vocals of wide range and wide-legged stance kick up electrified cowboy grit like tequila-shooting Molly Hatchet.

Lord Fowl – Moon Queen – Music Stream

February 28, 2013

Part classic rock, part space/cosmo rock, with a healthy dose of Kiss snuck into the vocals and chorus structures.

Larman Clamor – Frogs – Music Stream

February 9, 2013

Von Wieding proves himself a filthy guitarist, sliding muck along those six strings, while gravelly whispering fierceness that’d give Tom Waits pause.

Aspiga – Every Last Piece – Music Stream

January 22, 2013

Seven song debut from this New Jersey punk band. Inconsistent vocals but chunky bass, lively tempos, and some solid melodies and good breakdowns.

Skanska Mord – Paths to Charon – Music Stream

January 7, 2013

Dirty rock, Sweden-style, with guitar chunk and harmonica from the outset, and then the Soundgarden vocals kick in, swagger and might intact, and you’re hooked.

Sons of Otis – Seismic – Music Stream

December 19, 2012

If Mastodon is shaggy, lumbering, and mighty, Sons of Otis are plodding dinosaurs with a delay pedal.