Lollipop Magazine

The Collector’s Guide to Heavy Metal – Volume 4 – The ’00s – Review

July 1, 2011

It’s a testament to the writing that this is good enough to read from beginning to end, discovering new artists as you go, just to hear the author’s take.

Clutch – Strange Cousins From The West – Review

October 1, 2009

All manner of swampy, bluesy, stoner rock, topped creatively with lyrics like Les Claypool fronting Blue Oyster Cult. But we’ve heard all these tricks before.

Lynyrd Skynyrd – God & Guns – Review

September 1, 2009

Lynyrd Skynyrd are here again to unravel the nicotine-stained credo of every goddamn redneck cliché and characteristic until no stereotype is left untyped.

Judas Priest – A Touch of Evil: Live – Review

September 1, 2009

Priest’s best live album since Unleashed in the East, a corker molten of metal mix, slammed up and serving 11 hot rockin’ tracks.

Faster Pussycat – Front Row For The Donkey Show – Review

September 1, 2009

Faster Pussycat is down to one original member, but what a member, in the leathered-up and corpse-painted, extended of girth, vague Nazi-lookin’ Taime Downe.

Chuck Mosley and Vua – Will Rap Over Hard Rock For Food – Review

September 1, 2009

Mosley once fronted Bad Brains, but is most notorious for his big-mouthed ranting on the first two Faith No More albums. Chuck got cool guest stars involved.

Ace Frehley – Anomaly – Review

September 1, 2009

Best Ace Frehley album ever, hands down. Anomaly is a huge, accomplished stadium rock record crafted and produced to perfection by Ace himself.

Judas Priest – Heavy Metal Painkillers – Review

June 1, 2009

If you care about Priest or the germination of metal, you wanna see this. Popoff is a deep crate digger in the hard rock and metal world, a lifer’s lifer.

Sepultura – A-Lex – Review

January 9, 2009

Based on the book and movie A Clockwork Orange. Sepultura 2.0’s usual pageant of groove and rigidity, thrashing, main tool being Kisser’s riffing.

Evergrey – Torn – Review

January 1, 2009

Keys massaged in properly, down-tuning mixed with bright major chord stadium rock, and melancholic melodies glowing from the whole impressive machine.