Martin Popoff – Page 12 – Lollipop Magazine

Slave To The System – Review

April 14, 2006

Forgettable name, but Slave To The System turns out to be a cool bit of rock star marriaging in the Audioslave, Velvet Revolver, Brides of Destruction oeuvre.

Sepultura – Dante XXI – Review

April 14, 2006

Sepultura turn in what is probably their coolest album of the under-rated Derrick Green years.

Savage Circus – Dreamland Manner – Review

April 7, 2006

If you like your Blind Guardian-esque metal without the swooping highs and lows and feats of derring-do, then look to the cheeky audacity of Savage Circus.

The Ocean – Aeolian – Review

March 17, 2006

Like the accessible Six Feet Under of artcore, the band birthing cogent, logical metal nuggets, like slowed-down Meshuggah with a rich, full-bodied recording.

The Illuminati – Review

March 17, 2006

The songs are so cool, this whole hillbilly Thin Lizzy thing making sense, if you heavy it up with the Sabbath to make mod stoner rock loud enough to be heard.

Edguy – Rocket Ride – Review

March 17, 2006

If you don’t mind Stratovarius going rock ‘n’ rollsy, or Alexi’s hair metal covers, Edguy’s edging toward mainstream metal may come off as unselfconscious fun.

Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal – Review

March 17, 2006

Bolt Thrower have always served up their unflagging war metal with a sense of unhurried, unforced charm, and Those Once Loyal continues in that tradition.

Acid Bath – Demos: 1993 – 1996 – Review

March 17, 2006

Here’s Dax, Sammy Audie, Mike, and Jimmy caught quivered in caustic terror, creating the first vestiges of Acid Bath’s signature doom thrash.

Torture Killer – Swarm! – Review

March 10, 2006

Finns playing prime’n’bloody U.S. death metal is weird in itself, but on their second album, Torture Killer have a new vocalist: Six Feet Under’s Chris Barnes.

Old Man’s Child – Vermin – Review

March 3, 2006

Given his Dimmu-ship as well as a multitude of Old Man’s Children, somehow the reticent black star rising finds time to boil and toil another swirling brew.