Martin Popoff – Page 49 – Lollipop Magazine

Dokken – Erase The Slate – Review

September 1, 1999

The production is inspiring and combative, guitars and drums bashing it out for supremacy, while the band figures out how to be rockers straddling old hair.

Deathwitch – Monumental Mutilations – Review

September 1, 1999

Many line-up changes and three albums later, Sacramentum drummer Nikke Terror has his fourth Deathwitch album, and it’s the tightest, best sounding yet.

Civil Defiance – Circus Of Fear – Review

September 1, 1999

Think Mind Over Four, Thought Industry, Jane’s Addiction, or Candiria, metal without limits, adding a double shot of Brutally Truthful post-grind irony.

Crimson Midwinter – Random Chaos – Review

June 1, 1999

Extremely thorny, prickly and crisp black metal with brilliant execution, but vocals mixed far back. All the better to hear this knock ’em dead drummer.

Labyrinth – Return To Heaven Denied – Review

June 1, 1999

Labyrinth are quite speedy and focused, rarely ponderous, and quite bent on hair-flipped heroics of a most axe-aggressive nature.

Terra Firma – Review

June 1, 1999

Terra Firma have found new ways to do stoner rock, by digging back into the past and then into jumpy American proto-Sabs like Pentagram and Sir Lord Baltimore.

Devin Townsend – Infinity – Review

June 1, 1999

Art, science, and glorious metal noise tingled and touched by a dalliance of genius.

Lothlorien – The Primal Event – Review

June 1, 1999

The Primal Event displays a band smack in the middle of a feeding pit, populated by acts fusing black metal, death metal, and traditional power metal.

Arch Enemy – Stigmata – Review

June 1, 1999

Stacks upon high influences from black to death to thrash to classic ’80s metal, emerging from the tunnel as one enigmatic tactical unit of metal might.

Mindset – A Bullet for Cinderella – Review

June 1, 1999

Every song’s a fresh new trip, every second song an infection, every third a raging holler-out ecstatic anthem. I’m reminded of the underrated Handsome record.