Lollipop Magazine

Nothingface – An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity – Review

April 1, 1999

These D.C.-based boys lean in a Earth Crisis-meets-Fugazi direction. They rip and shred, but they manage to integrate some beautiful melodies.

Dio – Inferno: Last in Live – Review

January 1, 1999

Crushing versions of classics “Holy Diver,” “Heaven and Hell,” “The Last in Line,” “Rainbow in the Dark,” “The Mob Rules,” and “Man on the Silver Mountain.”

Paul Gilbert – King of Clubs – Review

November 1, 1998

Buzzes comfortably on a shelf populated by Cheap Trick, Enuff Z’nuff, Elvis Costello, and Joe Jackson records, with punctuations of light-speed Zappa zaps.

Cradle of Filth – Cruelty and the Beast – Interview

November 1, 1998

An interview with Dani Filth

Boiler – The New Professionals – Review

November 1, 1998

New boys Boiler strapped confidently between hardcore and slowcore, onto uh, groovecore. There’s a sardonic and articulate sense of humor to the thing.

Union – Review

April 1, 1998

Ex-Mötley Crüe vocalist John Corabi and ex-Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick combine ’cause no real band would have ’em, and this way, no one could kick ’em out.

Pro-Pain – Review

April 1, 1998

This exemplifies a stripped to basics approach (imagine Pantera without all the showing off), an urbancore aesthetic that I just don’t find very interesting.

Fall From Grace – Review

March 1, 1998

Fall From Grace trudges through swampy emotions, all roads leading nowhere, all vegetation doomed in the end, the smell of slow-moving death at your heels.

Pist*On – Number One – Interview

September 1, 1997

An interview with vocalist Henry Font

Dio – Angry Machines – Review

June 15, 1996

Despite tackling such topic as isolation, divorce, paranoia, and insanity, Dio still sounds like he’s singing “Look out! The sky is falling down!”