Martin Popoff – Page 36 – Lollipop Magazine

Iced Earth – Horror Show – Review

February 22, 2002

The cool thing about Iced Earth has been the tag-team serious metalness of the long-locked duo locking devil horns up front with your inner headbanger.

Ozzy Osbourne – Down To Earth – Review

February 22, 2002

Ozzy made a heavy record. A vicious record. A complicated yet hard-ass yet regal record, one befitting his classic rock stature.

Judas Priest – Hell Bent for Leather – Review

February 22, 2002

Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hell Bent for Leather, and Unleashed In the East: The silver gleamed, the riffs rifled, and Halford was at his high-flying’ best.

Lost Horizon – Awakening the World – Review

February 22, 2002

Taking a page from In Extremo, Crimson Glory and lost ’80s yuksters Warrior, Lost Horizon don the warpaint and flowing finery of power metal fromage.

Gun Barrel – Power-Dive – Review

February 22, 2002

Drunken romps thru blue collar booze cans, wandering widely within that pigpen to the odd poppy ballad, the odd boogie woogie, a li’l AC/DC, a li’l Wildhearts.

God Forbid – Determination – Review

February 22, 2002

The idea here is not just Candiria, but other more hardcore forms of mathcore, as well as old school thrash, Meshuggah dissonance and Shadows Fall.

The Reign of Terror – Sacred Ground – Review

February 22, 2002

High energy, high quality power metal, perhaps more anthemic than Yngwie, more of a grind, and dripping in Gothic Dio vocal melodies.

Akercocke – Goat of Mendes – Review

February 22, 2002

Akercocke sounds like a cross between Peccatum, Zyklon, and Emperor with a Suffocation-esque death metal chain wrapped around the axle.

Dragonlord – Rapture – Interview

February 22, 2002

An interview with Eric Peterson

Nuggets II – Review

February 22, 2002

A track, a couple paragraphs, a professorial listen, a glance at the haberdashery, and you’re sampling the next one until the box of chocolates is gone.