Martin Popoff – Page 7 – Lollipop Magazine

Styx – The Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland – One With Everything

April 13, 2007

Styx’s pomp, prog, and hard rockin’ lends itself to the orchestral treatment. 115 in the orchestra, 56 in the choir: This is a big, loud celebration of rock.

Echoes of Eternity – The Forgotten Goddess – Review

April 6, 2007

A pure, unadorned, dreamy voice placed over quick-picked progressive metal that’s so precise that it’s damn near a math metal version of Children of Bodom.

Stuck Mojo – Southern Born Killers – Review

March 30, 2007

Bonz has been replaced by Lord Nelson, and beneath the new guy’s old school rapping, you get Rich’s soul-replenishing croon and his huge, grinding riffs.

Firewind – Allegiance – Review

March 30, 2007

Gus G. is only in his mid-20s, but with all the extreme metal around, his take on power metal is stacked with chords of an In Flames or Finnish metal nature.

Fear My Thoughts – Vulcannus – Review

March 30, 2007

Fear My Thoughts pack and compact a pile of forceful, punishing Machine Head-esque riffing into each of these diamond-blinding constructs.

Cronos – The Anthology – Review

March 30, 2007

The Anthology gathers up all three albums recorded during the man’s pointless exile from Venom, along with a handful of inconsequential rarities.

Blinded Colony – Bedtime Prayers – Review

March 16, 2007

Strengths are many, top being the butt-shaking riffs. Keyboard washes are a nice touch, but alas, vocals are generic hollering and the production is plastic.

Black Sabbath – Doom Let Loose – Review

March 3, 2007

350 pages of LP by LP, song by song, riff by riff, word by word attention to the band that created heavy. All the players, singers, the midgets; all of it.

Ill Nino – The Under Cover Sessions – Review

February 9, 2007

These modern metal veterans haven’t gotten the exposure they deserve, writing an exotic blend of Latin rhythms, guitar textures, and post-Seps metal riffery.

I – Between Two Worlds – Review

December 22, 2006

Despite what you hear, this is not a mainstreamy hard rockin’ biker rock release, it’s easy-on-the-ears Immortal, a trajectory from Sons of Northern Darkness.