Lollipop Magazine

Amon Amarth – Once Sent From The Golden Hall – Review

September 1, 1998

Viking warriors are alive and well. Tremendous metal with plenty of melodicism on their Metal Blade debut. One of the best Swedish metal albums this year.

The Everdawn – Poems Burn the Past – Review

September 1, 1998

Like Kreator? Check out The Everdawn.

Sacred Steel – Reborn in Steel – Review

September 1, 1998

I have trouble reviewing Sacred Steel without laughing myself silly. They remind me of Agent Steel and bands that were second rate the first time around.

Sacred Reich – Still Ignorant (1987-1997) Live – Review

April 1, 1998

I have the Surf Nicaragua EP on CD, cassette, and picture disc. That and Ignorant are plenty for me, thanks. Tech metal is dead.

Riot – Inishmore -Review

April 1, 1998

The ’80s are over and so are layered harmonies, classical guitar wanking, vocal warbling, and Whitesnake-sounding, lyrically-inane, hard rock posturing.

Hecate Enthroned – Upon Promeathean Shores – Review

April 1, 1998

Evil is eternal, screams of pain linger in the mind, and sweeping beauty and lurking death will never go out of style any more than they’ve ever been in style.

Skrew – Angel Seed XXIII – Review

March 1, 1998

Building from the ground up as a heavy band with a deep-rooted techno fetish, Skrew has remained true to their twisted roots.

Purged – Form of Release – Review

March 1, 1998

A young Aussie band of wanna-bes who borrow from Machine Head and a bunch of other heavy bands, yet somehow forget to take the interesting stuff.

Dark Funeral – The Secrets of the Black Arts – Review

March 1, 1998

In the hyperspeed drumming/blurred run-together riffs/screaming vocals semi-buried in the mix vein of non-keyboard black metal, Dark Funeral is dark and eerie.

Crisis – The Hollowing – Review

March 1, 1998

Vocally, Karyn Crisis shreds her innards, creating horrific imagery with tone, texture, timing, as well as with the words themselves.