Scott Hefflon – Page 240 – Lollipop Magazine

The Donnas – Review

January 1, 1999

With the success of American Teenage Rock’n’Roll Machine, Lookout! re-releases the hopelessly out-of-print Super*teem Records LP with early 7″ tracks tacked on.

Excruciating Terror – Divided We Fall – Review

January 1, 1999

Twenty-one songs in 30 minutes, all demon bellow/throat-clearing vocals, “I wrote a riff, let’s make it a song!” guitarwork, and mad drumming.

Enthroned – Towards the Skullthrone of Satan – Review

January 1, 1999

With very few exceptions, Towards… launches into a hyperspeed assault of early-’90s school black metal and rarely gives the listener a break.

Suffocation – Despise the Sun – Review

January 1, 1999

Low, but distinctive demon growls with speedmetal riffs and beats from the heyday of the late ’80s that, while nicely complex, often trip over themselves.

Strapping Young Lad – No Sleep ‘Till Bedtime – Review

January 1, 1999

Six live tracks from the two studio albums, plus a live version of the unreleased “Far Beyond Metal” and two studio tracks previously released only in Japan.

Stinkaholic – Melee – Review

January 1, 1999

Like Rancid but think their songs are too well-written and over-produced? Check out Stinkaholic.

Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited – The Fluid Soundbox – Review

January 1, 1999

A timeless, sonically rich album that transports you to a windswept ghost town, a grimy back alley in a mob-run city, or a mad scientist’s secret hidaway.

Dio – Inferno: Last in Live – Review

January 1, 1999

Crushing versions of classics “Holy Diver,” “Heaven and Hell,” “The Last in Line,” “Rainbow in the Dark,” “The Mob Rules,” and “Man on the Silver Mountain.”

Darkest Hour – The Prophecy, Fulfilled – Review

January 1, 1999

When the band launches from some age-old slow mosh part into a thumpa-thumpa-thumpa part they think is bad-ass, I have to grin and think these guys rule!

Spazboy – Twilight Area – Review

January 1, 1999

Add another name to the long list of pleasantly punky bands who write songs about what losers they are and how everyone’s a jerk.