Roadrunner Records – Page 8 – Lollipop Magazine

Still Remains – Of Love and Lunacy – Review

March 28, 2005

Detroit take on European metal like Soilwork, In Flames, et all. Not hugely memorable guitarwork, hardcore roar and harmonied clean vocals, and keyboard.

Slipknot – Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) – Review

November 15, 2004

Patented heart-busting punk rock nü metal death, but there are choruses, melodic vocals, very musical touches, many more than on previous albums.

Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache – Review

October 4, 2004

Rich with headbanging riffs, an excellent thrash frontman, gorgeous production by guitarist Adam Dutkiewitcz, Andy Sneap mixes. The clean-sung passages: Gay.

Machine Head – Through the Ashes of Empires – Review

October 4, 2004

The ever-changing riffs, the melodic solos, the heavy-as-hell, frantic drumming. This is a true return to thrash with some of the heavier stuff thrown in.

Disincarnate – Dreams of the Carrion Kind – Review

August 30, 2004

Disincarnate was formed by guitarist James Murphy in ’92 after he spent the previous few years making a name for himself with Death, Obituary, and Cancer.

Roadrunner Records – Monte Conner (A&R) – Interview

May 23, 2004

An interview with Monte Conner

Pestilence – Consuming Impulse – Testimony of the Ancients – Review

March 15, 2004

As part of the early-’90s jazz/death movement, Pestilence left behind four albums of pure progressive mindfuck that easily shames anything “technical” today.

Exhorder – Slaughter in the Vatican/The Law – Review

March 15, 2004

Formed in the mid-to-late ’80s, Exhorder are credited with starting the “Southern trendkill” style of thash-hardcore-sludge insanity eventually carried on by the likes of Crowbar, Eyehategod, Soilent Green, Down, and – of course – Pantera.

Obituary – Slowly We Rot – Cause of Death – Review

February 9, 2004

The first two albums (reissued here on one disc) still sound as goose bump-inducing and eeriely haunting as the day they first massacred death metal fans.

Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten – Pierced From Within – Review

February 9, 2004

Even at their very beginning, Suffocation sounded beefier, hungrier, meaner, and more chaotic than their contemporaries.