Martin Popoff – Page 37 – Lollipop Magazine

Corrosion Of Conformity – Live Volume – Review

February 22, 2002

If anything can (over)correct for the processed meat that was America’s Volume Dealer, it is a gangly, spider-fingered groove-doom live shoot ’em up.

Epoch of Unlight – Caught in the Unlight! – Review

February 22, 2002

Now a tight and taut three-piece, zipping along, perfecting and honing their unique sound which is increasingly melodic, less black and more thrash.

Slayer – God Hates Us All – Review

February 22, 2002

Lots of bands know what sounds cool. Many forget. Slayer figured it out four or five seconds into Reign In Blood and then never forgot.

Judas Priest – Unleashed In the East – Review

February 15, 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.

Judas Priest – Stained Class – Review

February 15, 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.

Welcome To The Aerosmithsonian – A Tribute to Aerosmith – Review

June 4, 2001

All told, this sounds like a talentless hair band that couldn’t get signed in 1989 one-taking a bunch of demos in Mama Kin’s garage.

An Industrial Rock Tribute To Judas Priest – Review

June 4, 2001

Methinks these things exist just to rile the increasingly Perry-skunked mullets of Priest fans, and ooh boy, mission accomplished.

Opeth – Blackwater Park – Review

June 3, 2001

Panoramic, ten-minute labyrinths such as “Bleak” and “The Leper Affinity” might soon have musicologists calling them the Led Zeppelin of extreme mus

Melvins – Electroretard – Review

June 3, 2001

An odds’n’sodser from the oddest of noiseniks, Electroretard is a 42-minute sliderule rock ride through noise, covers, and remakes of old classicks.

Labyrinth – Sons of Thunder – Review

June 3, 2001

This is a very heavy, very fast power metal band, not some flighty orchestral experiment, Labyrinth yammering on about some subplot in the life of Louis XIV.