Scott Hefflon – Page 276 – Lollipop Magazine

Diatribe – Review

June 1, 1997

If melodic yet angry, guitar-driven yet coldly, synthetically strong music is your bag, check out Diatribe.

Waiting For God – Quarter Inch Thick – Review

June 1, 1997

Waiting For God, a female-fronted outfit that uses keyboards more than guitars, tread the dark waters between the solid shores of metal and pop.

Cocobat – Return of Grasshopper – Review

June 1, 1997

Japanese metalcore with novelty kitsch, sounds as heavy as John Candy’s lard butt, and lyrics that are both insightfully metaphoric and incitefully angry.

Clay People – Stone: Ten Stitches – Review

June 1, 1997

Growling like James Hetfield over Ministryish guitar heaviness is not the future, it’s the past. While outgrowing Goth is admirable, becoming powermetal isn’t.

Christdriver – Everything Burns – Review

June 1, 1997

The conceptual mix of heavy music backbone and long, crystal-clear sound clips I’ve always wanted to hear. A nightmare mix of having the stereo and the TV on.

bis – The New Transistor Heroes – Review

June 1, 1997

The sound that’s taking the world by storm! That’s right kids, it’s the ’80s!

Before You Were Punk – Review

June 1, 1997

Before You Were Punk coulda been another collection of the same hotshot punk bands covering silly songs from a decade many wish we could deny we were a part of.

Todos tus Muertos – Dale Aborigan – Review

June 1, 1997

Argentina’s version of Bad Brains, Tudos Tus Muertos (All Your Dead) blend hardcore punk, African-tinged reggae, and Latin folkloric rhythms.

Tinfed – Hypersonic Hyperphonic – Review

June 1, 1997

Hypersonic Hyperphonic is a mish-mash of Cop Shoot Cop/Nine Inch Nails hybrid nightmares and we-really-like-Killing-Joke throwaways.

Thin Lizard Dawn – Review

June 1, 1997

The sensitive pop sounds like Jellyfish, the trippy orchestrated rock sounds like Earth 18, and they incorporate Beatles and Nirvana cohesively like Birdbrain.