Martin Popoff – Page 43 – Lollipop Magazine

The Quiet Room – Reconceive – Review

June 1, 2000

Heavy, dark Dream Theater, with vocals from new guy Pete Jewell that oddly go to a Hetfield zone, really redefining the band’s mandate.

Nile – In The Beginning – Review

June 1, 2000

In The Beginning is a reissue of the band’s pre-debut recordings, gathering two batches, Festivals Of Atonement from ’95 and Ramses Bringer Of War from ’97.

Metal Church – Live – Review

June 1, 2000

Ripping open with catchy thrasher “Ton Of Bricks,” Live captures this “almost” band criss-crossing the country in ’86 after their second album, The Dark.

Lefay – SOS – Review

June 1, 2000

Lefay continue to hone and perfect their rhythm-heavy take on power metal, forsooth really delivering the stomping power where others do not.

Grave Digger – Excalibur – Review

June 1, 2000

It’s wordy, overwrought, and stuffed with fussy parts, but the carnal rhythms keep the show earthy and mischievous. Fast like Helloween, leaden like Accept.

Black Label Society – Stronger than Death – Review

June 1, 2000

Al serious, pensive, and decidedly not the party metal you’d expect. Dark, doomy, textured like 50-grit, and stompingly metallic.

Heavy Metal Record Price Guide – Martin Popoff – Review

June 1, 2000

Much like his massive metal tome, The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal, Mr. Popoff has focused on metal from a wide-eared metalist’s point of view.

Stuck Mojo – Declaration of a Headhunter – Interview

June 1, 2000

An interview with guitarist Rich Ward

Deceased – Supernatural Addiction – Review

June 1, 2000

King Fowley found a way to deliver horror stories without lapsing into comic book Rob Zombie-isms. There’s a trace of camp, but he smothers it in hot asphalt.

Annihilator- Criteria For A Black Widow – Review

June 1, 2000

Nine albums of ironically clean carnality, nine records of tuneful moderate thrash featuring advanced riffs and a good ear for the songcraft of the ’70s.