Martin Popoff – Page 38 – Lollipop Magazine

King Diamond and Black Rose – 20 Years Ago: A Night of Rehearsal – Review

June 3, 2001

Kudos to the King for having the open mind and healthy ego enough to let/put out this casual, raw CD capturing the man’s pre-Mercyful Fate band in late 1980.

Killing Machine – Review

June 3, 2001

It’s a cool thing when grizzled veterans of the metal wars collide and try their hand at the power metal they themselves had a hand in creating in the ’80s.

Kick Axe – Welcome To The Club – Review

June 3, 2001

Welcome To The Club is less godly than the debut barnstormer, and suffers from a bit of a wide, echoey, drafty recording, but there are many gems.

Halford – Live Insurrection – Review

June 3, 2001

Halford dug deep into the Priest catalogue, whipped out a bit o’ Fight and played much of the obvious, safe but satisfying Resurrection album.

Samhain – Box Set – Review

June 1, 2001

The music alone makes this big sucka worth it though, a bunch of rare albums presented in quite good remaster quality. And the man’s voice… Geez, it rules.

Annihilator – Carnival Diablos – Review

June 1, 2001

Guitar tones, riffs, well-assembled songs – that’s why we keep coming back to Annihilator year after year.

David Coverdale – Into The Light – Review

June 1, 2001

Mature, self-aware and highly enjoyable, Into The Light proves that Coverdale was a true blues’n’ballad artist incredulously flung into hair band stardom.

Darkane – Insanity – Review

June 1, 2001

New vocalist for record two, but same quick-footed Swedish death sound as Darkane drill the listener, propelled by the Calamity Kane drumming of Peter Wildoer.

Every Mother’s Nightmare – Smokin’ Delta Voodoo – Review

June 1, 2001

EMN ’01 are a pretty cool cross between Tesla, L.A. Guns, Brother Cane, and Jackyl – not too, too Southern, but squarely on the roots/sleaze side of L.A.

Cathedral – Endtyme – Review

June 1, 2001

Refusing to write catchy stoner rock anthems, instead preferring art-damaged collages of thick smoke-choked riffs strafed with Dorrian’s nuthouse roar.