Lollipop Magazine

Diabolique – Butterflies – Review

June 1, 2000

Reverb-drenched guitar swirl, the pounding beats of bleeding wrist ballerinas, the pretentious ultra-smooth Goth croon, and lyrics Robert Smith’d think oblique.

Triumphator – Wings of Antichrist – Review

April 1, 2000

A carnal retro-black metal conflagration, driven by Marduk drummer Fredrik, Funeral Mist guitarist and vocalist Arioch, and produced by Peter Tägtgren.

Nocturnus – Etheral Tomb – Review

April 1, 2000

Razor-sharp, atmospheric venture into the realm of prog-death left by Cynic and Atheist. Clean guitars, multiple vocal stylings, and mood-setting keyboards.

Cranium – Speed Metal Sentence – Review

January 1, 2000

Cranium continues in the German tradition of finely-tuned speed metal, yet they incorporate a sense of humor, sometimes dark and grisly, other times just goofy.

Witchery – Dead, Hot and Ready – Review

January 1, 2000

Witchery is crazy, shot-glass thrash that only allows its professed love of mainstream stuff (Ozzy, Accept, Priest) to leach out under the utmost discipline.

Thrashing Holocaust – Review

January 1, 2000

Necropolis has done a fine job assembling some of the most dangerous, bloodthirsty, ultra-violent, speed-addled lunatics on the planet on Thrashing Holocaust.

Deathwitch – Monumental Mutilations – Review

September 1, 1999

Many line-up changes and three albums later, Sacramentum drummer Nikke Terror has his fourth Deathwitch album, and it’s the tightest, best sounding yet.

Cranium – Speed Metal Slaughter – Review

January 1, 1999

Guitars scale madly, whammy bars shudder, and umPA-umPA drumming ensues, meanwhile vocalist Chainsaw Demon cackles wickedly and emits Baloffian yelps.

The Dawning of Pure Evil – Review

November 1, 1998

You get yer money’s worth of galloping ’80s thrash shred, hyperspeed pummeling, throat-ripping shrieks, guttural growls, and trance-inducing nightmare blurs.

Nifelheim – Devil’s Force – Review

September 1, 1998

Fast, thrashy, and scattered with screeching fills comin’ at ya like divebombin’ birds of prey.