Relapse Records – Page 11 – Lollipop Magazine

Red Harvest – Cold Dark Matter – Review

April 1, 2001

Sweeping atmospheric keys, squealing metal sounds (literally), dirty guitars, and a strong melodic sense all filtered through a very analog-sounding mix.

Nile – Black Seeds of Vengeance – Review

April 1, 2001

A record that charms by being so in love with death metal, while pushing the form ever-forward, using progressive breaks and weird exotic instruments.

Napalm Death – Leaders Not Followers – Review

April 1, 2001

Napalm Death take six songs by their favorite bands and make them sound even better.

Incantation – The Infernal Storm – Review

September 1, 2000

The Infernal Storm is cleaner and better-played than any of their previous efforts, and it retains the kind of morbid magic that the classics embodied.

Cephalic Carnage – Exploiting Dysfunction – Review

September 1, 2000

I’d given up hope on humorous grindcore until I played this disc. Imagine Mr. Bungle, Candiria, Pink Floyd, Acid Bath, and Impulse Manslaughter.

Origin – Review

September 1, 2000

Kansas’ Origin are first and foremost a vicious death metal band with a bloodlust that’ll match Deicide and Cannibal Corpse.

Nasum – Human 2.0 – Review

September 1, 2000

Fast, shredding, full of blast beats, multi-vocal yelping/growling, squeezed through a giant garage fuzz box so that even the pubes on the album buzz.

Nile – In The Beginning – Review

June 1, 2000

In The Beginning is a reissue of the band’s pre-debut recordings, gathering two batches, Festivals Of Atonement from ’95 and Ramses Bringer Of War from ’97.

Breach – Venom – Review

June 1, 2000

They’ve been influenced as much by later, metal-er Earth Crisis as by later, more-accessible Napalm Death. And a bit of Neurosis and Eyehategod.

Deceased – Supernatural Addiction – Review

June 1, 2000

King Fowley found a way to deliver horror stories without lapsing into comic book Rob Zombie-isms. There’s a trace of camp, but he smothers it in hot asphalt.