Mike Delano – Page 82 – Lollipop Magazine

Assassin’s Creed – Brotherhood – Review

December 30, 2010

As a 15th-century Italian assassin tasked with identifying and executing a rival, you use a variety of techniques and abilities to find your target.

Die Krupps – Als Wären wir für immer – Review

December 29, 2010

Eight tracks paint a robust and varied portrait of the band’s sound: “Beyond” snuggling with Depeche Mode while “Die Macht” does a Rammstein’s boot-stomp.

Medal of Honor – Review

December 28, 2010

Medal of Honor doesn’t have the chops to equal its frequently-alluded-to competitor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but it’s satisfying in its own way.

Kylesa – Spiral Shadow – Review

December 27, 2010

A sad record. Not in a boo-hoo way, it’s more of a hands-in-pockets, head down, kick the can as the weight of existence slows your movement kind of way.

Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra – Review

December 10, 2010

Dimmu Borgir may have waded even deeper than usual into the realm of symphonic melodrama this time around, but they’ve still got the riffs, so fuck you.

Rock Band – 3 – Review

December 9, 2010

A no-stone-unturned evolution, from the improved user interface to the steady implementation of new features, to huge new additions like the keyboard.

Riotgod – Review

December 8, 2010

30 seconds in, singer Mark Sunshine has already belted out a “whoo” and a “yeeaah,” signaling the coming flood of big, fuzzy riffs, sky-tearing solos.

Dead Rising – 2 – Review

December 7, 2010

The fantastically detailed (and sadistically difficult) game that lay beneath these visuals lives on in the sequel, with an even greater emphasis on the humor.

Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty – Review

December 6, 2010

Think Cephalic Carnage is content to travel the well-worn grindcore path of blastbeats or one-dimensional wall of sound? You don’t know what you’re in for.

Atheist – Jupiter – Review

November 24, 2010

Jupiter zips and crashes around the room, its sharp edges colliding with surfaces hard and soft, hurling itself constantly forward with impossible energy.