Lollipop Magazine

Cave In – Perfect Pitch Black – Review

February 3, 2006

Jupiter & Antenna were epic albums with delectable melodies at their hearts. Perfect Pitch Black hypnotically repeats refrains and riffs, leaving melody behind.

Jesu – Review

June 13, 2005

Ex-Godflesh mastermind Justin Broadrick’s first “real” outfit since the demise of the Giant G, Jesu promises to fuse ethereal ambience with crushing doom noise.

Discordance Axis – Our Last Day – Review

June 1, 2005

They were a grind band, they broke up, this CD has their last two unreleased songs and a bunch of their songs covered by bands like Melt Banana and Merzbow.

Pelican – Australasia – Interview

April 12, 2004

An interview with guitarist Trevor de Brauw

Keelhaul – Subject to Change Without Notice – Review

April 12, 2004

The combined heft and riffage of metal language, the dynamic precision post-core/math-rock shares with prog rock and the ability to jam several ideas into a composition keys this as actual songcrafted rock.

Pelican – Australasia – Review

March 1, 2004

Former pieces of the Earth’s crust now transformed into deadly projectiles as rockets of liquid magma spurted violently from the newly-created holes.

Pelican – Review

November 12, 2003

Heavy, heavily groove-laden, dramatic, opium-dosed honey flows down instrumental trudge/dooms haunch and you lap it up. So do I.

Botch – An Anthology of Dead Ends – Review

June 20, 2003

The band has never sounded better: Awkward catchiness, mind-boggling technicality, third degree-burn ferocity, and just overall fucking top notch songcrafting.

Cave In – Tides of Tomorrow – Interview

January 3, 2003

An interview with guitarist/vocalist Steve Brodsky

Cave In – Review

August 16, 2002

All the drama, exploration, and bombast of Jupiter, focused tighter around “poppier” songwriting, and Steve Brodsky’s flamboyant-but-smooth vocals.