Lollipop Magazine

Azrael – Act III: Self Act IV: Goat – Review

March 18, 2007

Two hours of brutish beauty like Agalloch and such. Mostly instrumental (the vocals are blackened growl when they occur), mostly droning and tinkering.

Dodsferd – Fucking Your Creation – Review

March 9, 2007

Dodsferd is a one-man project from Greece. Wrath is that man, and his music has been dubbed “dirty black-n-roll,” a combination of raw black metal and rock.

Horna – Ääniä Yössä – Review

January 1, 2007

Finnish necro black metal, 10 years in hell, toilet bowl recording, four songs of hate, untuned guitars, blackened screams, and blurry guitarwork.

Summon – Fallen – Review

January 27, 2006

Summon was hot shit in the day, but they’ve been lapped. If heads-down, no-frills, brutal death metal is your thing, Fallen may be right up your alley.

Drawn and Quartered – Hail Infernal Darkness – Review

January 1, 2006

Seattle band’s fourth slab of frantic mayhem. Some creepy-crawling, plenty of blastbeat thunder, deep, swallowed-mic growl, and flutter-picked leads and fills.

Leviathan – Tentacles of Whorror – Review

June 13, 2005

Ultra-fuzzy guitar, melodic bass lines, echo heavy banshee wails, and blastbeat drumming segue nicely to the more quiet, atmospheric compositions.

Summon – Fallen – Review

June 1, 2005

This is what others strive for, and fall far shy of. Shredding necro-thrashy death with all the right ingredients in all the right ratios. Damn near perfect.

Drawn and Quartered – Return of the Black Death – Review

May 16, 2005

Around since the late ’90s playing pretty standard death metal: Guttural vocals, heavy downstroked guitar riffs, machine gun fire drum beats, etc.

Mactatus – Blot – Review

February 22, 2002

A re-issue of Mactatus’ first release from ’97. Classic black metal, full of violence and echoey vocal howls, mid-tempo guitar sawing, and limited keyboards.

Thy Infernal – Warlords of Hell – Review

February 22, 2002

Necro black metal that capitalizes letters at the drop of a hat and adds extra exclamation points to letcha know they mean business.