Scott Hefflon – Page 196 – Lollipop Magazine

Sacred Steel – Bloodlust – Review

September 1, 2000

Titles include the word blood three times, steel twice, metal twice, and hammer, oath, wrath, war, warriors, gates, fate, lust, and thrones once each.

Axel Rudi Pell – The Masquerade Ball – Review

September 1, 2000

German precision heavy metal with powerful vocals, crunch and tasty leads, so ya know what’s what. Weak, fake-sounding drums, surprisingly enough.

Automatic 7 – Beggar’s Life – Review

September 1, 2000

Kinda Mike Ness in the vocals, some chord changes you get to once yer so sick the same three chords, and songs that are catchy without being formulaic.

A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms – Review

September 1, 2000

On the whole, these 45 minutes are colorful and active (more swaying/grooving than fist-banging), a great record to play from end to end while hanging out.

Rotten Sound – Still Psycho – Review

September 1, 2000

The band’s from Finland, sound like a disembowelment, and I stare dumbly at the CD player, wondering how much longer this machinegun assault can last.

Radford – Review

September 1, 2000

Aside from the formulaic radio non-hits (loud/soft/loud/soft) and girlie ballads, there are a couple songs that’ll stick in yer head after a listen or two.

98 Mute – Slow Motion Riot – Review

September 1, 2000

98 Mute aren’t bad, they just are no different from a couple hundred other punk bands who aren’t bad.

Power Symphony – Lightbringer – Review

September 1, 2000

Female-fronted power/epic metal with Celtic, doom, and classical influences. Very atmospheric and moody, but pushing the vocals too far forward.

Nokturnal Mortum – NeChrist – Review

September 1, 2000

Long, angry, sounds like shit, is packaged with simple photocopies, fonts ya can’t read, and low-contrast photos of long-haired guys in corpsepaint.

NOFX – Pump up the Valuum – Review

September 1, 2000

Has no horns, no ska bridges, and few to no passionate swells that sometimes kick in to make ya realize NOFX can write really beautiful stuff.