Lollipop Magazine

Ross The Boss – New Metal Leader – Review

October 1, 2008

Original Manowar guitarist Ross The Boss was also a Dictator, so he’s been around a bunch of cool bands. Solid grounding in meat and potatoes rock ‘n’ roll.

Jeff Loomis – Zero Order Phase – Review

October 1, 2008

(Aging) boy wonder for Nevermore, he lets rip with riffs that are likely just too complex and extreme to serve as vehicles for Warrel’s words.

House of Lords – Come To My Kingdom – Review

October 1, 2008

Lillian Axe or White Lion at their lightest, or oddly, Royal Hunt in airy architecture, mebbee a bit of Dokken, although Don could never be this yacht rock.

Motörhead – Motorizer – Review

September 1, 2008

Lemmy, Mikkey, and Phil: The longest-running lineup by far and the most prolific, keeps grinding out record after record of material better than the old stuff.

Chrome Division – Booze, Broads and Beelzebub – Review

September 1, 2008

Second round for this fun-time biker metal diversion for Dimmu’s Shagrath. Lead throat Eddie Guz really makes these songs roar with beery belching pride.

The Ocean – Precambrian – Review

April 1, 2008

Two discs, Hadean/Archaean and Proterozoic. One evokes the polluted decibel wonderment of Isis and Neurosis. Two exhibits more mellowness and elasticity.

The Dictators – Every Day Is Saturday – Review

April 1, 2008

A gorgeous rarities pack. 20 tracks plus four radio spots, documenting the side bits of The Dictators’ classic, legendary alternative career path career.

Taint – Secrets And Lies – Review

April 1, 2008

Taint (taint stoner, taint sludge, taint hardcore neither) competing with Spice, Spiritual, and Clutch, but adding an artful noise and an Entombed Viking vocal.

Sebastian Bach – Angel Down – Review

April 1, 2008

Looks good, digi, cool cover, even cooler title. Stupid though, complaining that a record is too high fidelity and the drummer is the best you’ve ever heard.

Overkill – Immortalis – Review

April 1, 2008

Production and writing is classic Overkill, thrash with an East Coast hardcore compactness, but cool, circuitous riffs weave their way through.