Scott Hefflon – Page 251 – Lollipop Magazine

Nocturnal Rites – Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Review

September 1, 1998

The singer has the tendency to sing “Mmm” a lot, like he’s smelling Mom’s brownies or thinking the groupy chicks’ll find him all emotive and hot, but I nitpick.

Nifelheim – Devil’s Force – Review

September 1, 1998

Fast, thrashy, and scattered with screeching fills comin’ at ya like divebombin’ birds of prey.

Midvinter – At the Sight of the Apocalypse Dragon – Review

September 1, 1998

Produced by King Diamond guitarist Andy LaRocque, it’s pretty evil in a paint-yer-face-by-numbers way, but a lot of black metal for yer buck.

Lord Belial – Enter the Moonlight Gate – Review

September 1, 1998

The songs blur together into a swirl of distortion, throat-shredding vocals, and machine-gunning double bass drumming, but that’s certainly not a bad thing.

Litany – Peculiar World – Review

September 1, 1998

“Quirky” has too many jerky implications, and if there’s one thing Litany is, it’s smooth.

Katatonia – Brave Murder Day/For Funerals to Come – Review

September 1, 1998

An hour of sweeping, dark music, from the creepy atmospheres of drummer Renske’s rich, Gothy vocals to the harder, deeper roar of Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt.

Jughead’s Revenge – Just Joined – Review

September 1, 1998

Just Joined begins the same – fast, hard, with throaty vocals (a little more human-sounding), galloping bass, riffing guitars, and a non-stop barrage of drums.

In Search of the Point – The Mind is a Terrible Thing to use as Paste – Fiction

September 1, 1998

“Since most people’s imaginations are confined to their own heads, and mine seems to have a radius of approximately 20 feet, I guess I can live with that.”

U-Turn – Review

September 1, 1998

Many great camera angles, loads of props to nod knowingly to yourself over, and a story line that, when all is said and done, amounts to squat.

The Man Who Knew Too Little – Review

September 1, 1998

Wallace trips apologetically through violence, passion, and intrigue, flubs his lines a showdown and asks to reshoot, and never takes a bit of it seriously.