Lollipop Magazine

Raise Hell – Holy Target – Review

April 1, 1999

Fellow scribes have mentioned Dissection and Children Of Bodom as similar warpspeed blacksters, and the comparisons are apt.

Hades – $avior$elf – Review

April 1, 1999

The highlight is the dug deep groove of “To Know One,” which somehow combines Sabbath, Savatage, and Aerosmith funk and flips itself into a suicide dirge.

Grip Inc. – Solidify – Review

April 1, 1999

Drama is created with bass and drum barrages, all laced with Middle Eastern flavors, or more accurately, middle British flavours of a grimly vampiric nature.

Flotsam And Jetsam – Unnatural Selection – Review

April 1, 1999

This one’s whimsical cover art refers to the band’s self-image as worker ants toiling away at the middle of metal, where nobody seems to be watching.

Epoch of Unlight – What Will Be Has Been – Review

April 1, 1999

Rum-flushed progressive black metal but with a hint of train-wrecked Witchery and The Haunted. Yeah, baby!

English Dogs – All The World’s A Rage – Review

April 1, 1999

English Dogs record real good now, and musically, blur it up closer to technically adept hardcore. More punk than anything American, new or old.

Twin Obscenity – For Blood, Honour And Soil – Review

January 1, 1999

I still wonder how black metal got to be the sound of the Northern woods in winter, but it is not ours to question the corpsepaint.

Gilby Clarke – Rubber – Review

January 1, 1999

An amalgam of post-rock ride wisdoms rendered in guitar-fueled glam, smartly off base from the new pop, but coming from the same well.

Galactic Cowboys – At The End Of The Day – Review

January 1, 1999

A slight left turn into a more immediate, dirt-faced sound, courtesy of drummer Alan Doss, who produced and mixed the whole Cheap Tricked starburst.

System Of A Down – Review

January 1, 1999

System Of A Down buzzes despite a terrible name, a considerably exotic sound and a lyrical canon that is hard to resist.