Lollipop Magazine

Megadeth – Warchest – Review

April 1, 2008

Warchest is gorgeous. A weird catch-all, leaning heavily on live, plus demos, studio rarities, interview snippets, a disorganized symphony of destruction.

Lizzy Borden – An Appointment with Death – Review

April 1, 2008

A thick, layered, ambitious record. Blackie and Borden alone own this decadent space between power and hair metal and strip mall junk while California burns.

Earth – The Bee Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull – Review

April 1, 2008

Love the production here, and a few cool things can be salvaged from this sludge/doom instrumental cure for insomnia.

Broken Teeth – Electric – Review

April 1, 2008

Jason McMaster is best known for his rip roarin’ Dangerous Toys franchise, but Broken Teeth have a bulging catalogue of boozy brawlin’ AC/DC-meets-Krokus metal.

Tank – Live And Rare – Review

March 1, 2008

This material’s been issued before, but ‘ere’s the version you ought to buy. A swell celebration of one of the NWOBHM’s most beloved bands.

Overdrive – Let The Metal Do The Talking – Review

March 1, 2008

The godly domain of Janne Stark. Composition-wise, it’s the band’s first album since ’84 and actually, half the songs were written in ’85.

Guns N’ Roses – Chinese Democracy – Review

March 1, 2008

Axl and a ragtag bag of pop culture pirates (literally, Replacements). He’s made the whole thing sound like the next Guns N’ Roses album after Illusion.

Death Angel – Killing Season – Review

March 1, 2008

The guys bring back the complicated thrash, but always within the context of Anthrax-core urban punk-grimed holler-along songfulness.

Brainstorm – Downburst – Review

March 1, 2008

Sounding dark and at the heavy end of power metal in the substance end of it, yet being seen as nice, personable guys a couple partitions from Edguy.

The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal – Vol. 3: The 90s – Review

March 1, 2008

Herein, you get about 3100 reviews, the stuff you expect in the metal genre/gene-splice spiced with heavy aggressive music tangential to metal.