Lollipop Magazine

Mar De Grises – Streams Inwards – Review

August 11, 2010

A trump card during your next metal exchange. Their brand of Chilean progressive death/doom is fantastically polished yet still adventurous.

Watain – Lawless Darkness – Review

June 1, 2010

Watain are happy to stick with the blastbeat/wall of sound hallmarks of the genre. But they twist these conventions in such creative and satisfying ways.

Destroyer 666 – Defiance – Review

March 1, 2010

Destroyer 666 rain non-stop murder on their first album in six years. Nine tracks in 40 minutes, they only pull back on closer “A Sermon to the Dead.”

Skitliv – Skandinavisk Misantropi – Review

November 1, 2009

“A bleak soundtrack to a personal apocalypse: Dark, loathing, hating, and full of venomous spite.” Mayhem’s singer Maniac with a few buddies chipping in.

Urgehal – Ikonoklast – Review

November 1, 2009

Pure fuckin’ black metal. They like facepaint, spikes, blastbeats, and reverbed misanthropy, but there’s Celtic Frost mid-tempo uh! here and there.

Rimfrost – Veraldar Nagli – Review

November 1, 2009

Double-bass thunder, flutter-picking mixed with arctic thrash, with anthemic Nordic roar, snakespit, and blackened yowl slathered generously atop this cake.

Agressor – Deathreat – Review

March 18, 2007

20th anniversary for this French death band. Old school Cookie Monster death with awkward stepping and blurry grind over blastbeats.

Rotting Christ – Theogonia – Review

January 1, 2007

10 albums deep, these Greek black metallers just keep slogging along. This one’s a bit faster. Never considered them top tier, but never fully dismissed them.

Solefald – Black for Death – Review

January 1, 2007

This band always slips my mind when naming the black/folk metal leaders. They’re worth knowing if you dig Borknagar, Finntroll, Carpathian Forest, and Arcturus.

Necrophagia – Through the Eyes of the Undead Uncut – Review

April 18, 2003

Phil Anselmo on guitar, Killjoy on vocals, and a couple other dudes, the hillbilly, small-animal killers, the kinda metal guys your parents warned you about.