Martin Popoff – Page 14 – Lollipop Magazine

The Absence – From Your Grave – Review

December 9, 2005

Debut full-length by a Tampa, Florida band that, quite amusingly, play melodic Swedish death metal. Very expertly, I might add. No clean vocals for these guys.

Judas Priest – Angel of Retribution – Review

December 2, 2005

Brings to the table eccentricity (gone since Hell Bent For Leather), dimension, a whole new persona to this band of many faces and misplaces over the years.

Opeth – Ghost Reveries – Review

November 18, 2005

Ghost Reveries might be the most complicated of a formidable lot, the album marking the best integration of the Damnation and Deliverance polarities.

God Forbid – IV: Constitution of Treason – Review

November 11, 2005

Some of the best, most guitar-smoked records of the metalcore revolution. Scintillating but captivatingly doomy twin leads, quick-picked riffs.

Hypocrisy – Virus – Review

November 11, 2005

Peter’s back churning his mechanized doom at a verbosity of velocities, but the main different in the terrible tale is that Immortal’s Horgh is on as drummer.

Gang of Four – Return the Gift – Interview

October 28, 2005

An interview with vocalist Jon King

Corrosion of Conformity – In the Arms of God – Review

October 21, 2005

Shaggy shambling, retaining of all those cool COC traits, the doom, the stoner, the sludge, the blues, the creaking Clutch-ness of the band’s best groovy tunes.

Enslaved – Isa – Review

September 30, 2005

Heaps of praise for this forward-thinking original Norse black metal “Viking” band, Enslaved, now with three beloved, multi-dimensional albums in a row.

Burn The Priest – Review

September 30, 2005

Back in 1998, Lamb Of God were called Burn The Priest and emerged out of Richmond, with an indie debut that should’ve dented more industry heads than it did.

Soilwork – Stabbing The Drama – Review

June 13, 2005

Comparisons with In Flames are inevitable, but there’s a consistency here that makes Soilwork more cohesive: Soilwork’s vocalist isn’t weird.