Roadrunner Records – Page 9 – Lollipop Magazine

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.

Chimaira – The Impossibility of Reason – Review

October 29, 2003

On full-length number two, Chimaira continue to psych-out the label-slappers with a sound that is as much about The Haunted as it is hardcore.

Machine Head – Hellalive – Review

July 23, 2003

Machine Head. Live album. Do you care?

Sepultura – Under a Pale Grey Sky – Review

January 3, 2003

Two discs full of songs I could’ve written while taking a shit during lunch break, replete with obvious breakdowns and moronic lyrics.

Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip – Review

September 9, 2002

A dense, sprawling, dead-serious collection of harrowing trips like Alice In Chains without the unpredictability or increasingly roughshod production.

Slipknot – Iowa – Review

March 15, 2002

True to the hype, Slipknot have created a meteor shower of extreme sights and sounds, deftly masking a nü metal premise they and Ross helped create.

Nickelback – Silver Side Up – Review

March 8, 2002

These guys, Days of the New, Lifehouse and all them, ya gotta appreciate what they’re good at, but let ’em know there’s still a lot of room for gettin’ better.

Anyone – Review

February 22, 2002

They’re kinda psychedelic in a Jane’s Addiction-meets-groove-metal-way, and if that sounds awful, well, it pretty much is.

Ill Nino – Revolution Revolucion – Review

February 22, 2002

Flamenco guitars are a new twist, authentic tribal drumming is always a welcome element, but I can really do without the cliché look and fashion.

Fear Factory – Digimortal – Review

February 22, 2002

I have to give the lugheads credit: I can’t trace “that eerie baritone vocal style” black metal adopted back any further than mid-’90s Fear Factory.