Mike Delano – Page 31 – Lollipop Magazine

As I Lay Dying – Awakened – Review

December 18, 2012

Metalcore stalwarts As I Lay Dying make good, sometimes not great, melodic metal. Their catalog feels a little clogged with solid rather than stellar material.

Satan’s Wrath – Galloping Blasphemy – Review

December 17, 2012

Greece’s Satan’s Wrath play excellent blackened thrash metal.

Satan’s Wrath – Between Belial and Satan – Music Stream

December 17, 2012

Greece’s Satan’s Wrath play excellent blackened thrash metal.

Aeon – Aeons Black – Music Stream

December 14, 2012

These Swedes unleash a lurching death metal plague, one that creeps up from your toes to your eyeballs until you’re just a quivering, blackened mess.

Aeon – Aeons Black – Review

December 14, 2012

These Swedes unleash a lurching death metal plague, one that creeps up from your toes to your eyeballs until you’re just a quivering, blackened mess.

Call of Duty – Black Ops II – Review

December 14, 2012

The makers of Call of Duty: Black Ops II are smart enough not to tinker too much with the template laid out in the enormously popular original.

Downfall of Gaia – Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes – Review

December 12, 2012

A thoughtful, expansive take on metal, one that seems perfectly in sync with the foggy, monochrome mountain-scape of the album artwork.

Downfall of Gaia – In the Rivers Bleak – Music Stream

December 12, 2012

A thoughtful, expansive take on metal, one that seems perfectly in sync with the foggy, monochrome mountain-scape of the album artwork.

Kylesa – From the Vaults, Vol. 1 – Review

December 7, 2012

Done right (and, crucially, if you’re a fan of the band), odds and ends collections offer an interesting new perspective on a band’s musical evolution.

Texas In July – Review

December 7, 2012

Once past the disappointment that this isn’t an Alice Cooper cover, “Bed of Nails” is a pretty cool slice of lean metalcore from this young Pennsylvania crew.