Martin Popoff – Page 48 – Lollipop Magazine

Rainbow – Down To Earth – Review

September 1, 1999

The Purplemeister blessed with perhaps Ritchie’s half dozen or so best riffs, plus the band’s rousing cover of Russ Ballard’s “Since You Been Gone.”

Em Sinfonia – In Mourning Symphony – Review

September 1, 1999

It’s strange hearing a jackhammercore guitarist like Broken Hope’s Brian Griffin get all weepy and progressive.

Rainbow – Difficult To Cure – Review

September 1, 1999

There are a few weak links (the debut and Difficult To Cure, both underproduced and confused), no self-respecting metalhead should be without this catalogue.

Rainbow – Bent Out Of Shape – Review

September 1, 1999

Fave here is Bent Out Of Shape simply for its cohesion, the record courting relationship depression with the AOR mastery and smash single “Street Of Dreams.”

Plastique – Empire Of The Black Suns – Review

September 1, 1999

Barely angry, barely alive, wholly without talent, and shoe-gazed like weak Halifax grunge.

Soil – Throttle Junkies – Review

September 1, 1999

Big drums, outrageously electric guitars, and solid vocal belts from McCombs when he’s loud, something closer to Days Of The New than Creed when he’s quiet.

PC69 – Electrified – Review

September 1, 1999

Electrified rides those same razor-sharp rails as Helloween and Gamma Ray, and scoops up odd tricks from Accept, Scorpions, and various hair bands.

Iced Earth – Something Wicked This Way Comes – Review

September 1, 1999

The Iceman whips up a sturdy new sledge, edging even further from prog into straight meat-and-potatoes metal with meticulous grooming.

Goatsnake – Goatsnake I – Review

September 1, 1999

There really ain’t enough accessible compositions on here, which is a pity, given the half-dozen personas vocalist Pete Stahl can conjure.

Alice Cooper – The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper – Review

September 1, 1999

Part of the crime is how bad some of the material here is – Alice not afraid to suck the tailpipe of trend like a mangy mutt misguidedly after a sugar fix.