Relapse Records – Page 12 – Lollipop Magazine

Today Is The Day – In the Eyes of God – Review

January 1, 2000

This record is the meanest, most inspirational, morbid, and haunted piece of vile I’ve heard in a long fucking time.

Nightstick – Death to Music – Review

January 1, 2000

Nightstick construct a wall of noisy hate with huge chunks of distorted guitar and not much else. This is nowhere near as hedonistic as Electric Wizard, though.

Mortician – Chainsaw Dismemberment – Review

January 1, 2000

No memorable riffs, no musical talent, nothing. There’s almost no variation between songs, and their drum machine sounds cheap.

Relapse Sampler – Review

September 1, 1999

With a roster like Neurosis, Soilent Green, Nile, Incantation, Amorphis, Today Is The Day, and Dillinger Escape Plan, how can Relapse be anything but quality?

Amorphis – Tuonela – Review

June 1, 1999

As Amorphis moved through the years, they became the ultimate slash band, moving through death/doom, doom/folk and folk/death/progressive.

Neurosis – Times of Grace – Review

June 1, 1999

The delicate moments provide a welcome, tranquil contrast to Neurosis’ signature, bone-crushing guitar and drum-riddled tunes. Steve Albini at the helm.

Morgion – Sol Niger Within – Review

June 1, 1999

Smell the pungent stench of the dying rose as you feel the flow of blood, squeezing the thorns that pierce your fingers.

Soilent Green – Sewn Mouth Secrets – Review

April 1, 1999

The same fertile soil that gave us all things sludgy, bluesy, and anvil-heavy such as Pantera, Crowbar, and Eyehategod, delivers yet another.

Unsane – Occupational Hazard – Review

April 1, 1998

While not as gritty, it still possesses an almost hypnotic monotony that acts as a perfect white-noise buffer to the vagaries of an unpleasant environment.

Today is the Day – Temple of the Moving Star – Review

April 1, 1998

TITD sawed the audience in half with overdriven guitar, creative sampling, and drumming that would have sounded appropriate on Led Zeppelin’s Moby Dick.