Martin Popoff – Page 6 – Lollipop Magazine

Megadeth – United Abominations – Review

July 20, 2007

You hear about Dave the Christian, but he’s also an intense American, addictive, and he’s angry (again), and a student of rotten politics, conspiracies, and the flow of the money. A lethal combination.

Type O Negative – Dead Again – Review

June 22, 2007

Sprawling 78 minute opus. Sabbath doom and the dark part of the Beatles, and the lyrics are amazing, colorful yet to the point, clear and graphic.

Six Feet Under – Commandment – Review

May 11, 2007

Chris Barnes is back, contemplating death, and coming up with quaint haiku origamis, thorns concealed, in which to place his gruesome thoughts.

Black Sabbath – The Dio Years – Review

May 4, 2007

The Ronnie era was a rock solid, efficient, self-aware time for Black Sabbath, and folks pretty much dig both Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules, as they should.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot – 20th Anniversary Edition – Review

April 27, 2007

Put together for local cable, it’s become the stuff of legend, mullets afire, beers in hand. Everybody was skinny, and the girls had mullets too.

Blue Oyster Cult – Spectres – Review

April 27, 2007

An amazing piece of genre-defying high concept pop metal, an album of a type only five or so bands could ever dare issue, and all of them from the ’70s.

Pain of Salvation – Scarsick – Review

April 20, 2007

Start with Clawfinger, then add a little OSI, for Scarsick contains nü metal riffs, rappy vocals, and then lots of trippy contemplating bits textured up nicely.

Twisted Tower Dire – Netherworlds – Review

April 20, 2007

Hipster classic metal bands are doing it: Play it loose and a little drunken, but Twisted Tower Dire have the deep-dish metal knowledge that slays trendiness.

The Stooges – The Weirdness – Review

April 20, 2007

They bash simply, with a bit of retro, and so they’re competing with hundreds of bands who’ve emulated anything about The Stooges over the last 37 years.

Age of Nemesis – Terra Incognita – Review

April 20, 2007

Hungarian prog metal that hits hard, riffy and rhythmically, with technically brilliant vocals from Zoltan Kiss who pulls it off without sounding too non-Anglo.