Solid State Records – Page 4 – Lollipop Magazine

Extol – Undeceived – Review

September 1, 2000

Forget In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, or any other band that “carries the torch of At The Gates.” Extol is the closest and the most passionate you’ll find.

Born Blind – One for All – Review

September 1, 2000

Taking Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, and Sick Of It All, and adding that new school guitar crunch, Born Blind is almost an exact replica of No Innocent Victim.

Society’s Finest – The Journey – So Far – Review

September 1, 2000

Throw Botch, Slayer chord progressions, and any one of Hydrahead’s bands into a blender, and you have Society’s Finest.

Embodyment – The Narrow Scope of Things – Review

June 1, 2000

Embodyment goes for a more spiritual effect; a soul-piercing serenity propelled by heaviness.

Selfmindead – At The Barricades We Fall – Review

April 1, 2000

Learning brutality and catchiness from Entombed, Selfmindead have given the American crazy-core that Coalesce helped invent a much-needed focus.

Blindside – A Thought Crushed My Mind – Review

April 1, 2000

Learning brutality and catchiness from Entombed, Blindside and Selfmindead have given the American crazy-core that Coalesce helped invent a much-needed focus.

Training for Utopia – Throwing a Wrench in the American Music Machine – Review

April 1, 2000

You can claim that this is the counterpart to Coalesce and Today Is The Day all you want, but you’re wrong. Noisecore with no inspiration.

Zao – Liberate te ex Inferis – Review

January 1, 2000

Zao gives you sadness the way it exists in physical form: unrelenting, claustrophobic, overwhelming, unforgiving, and obese. Evilcore at its most brilliant.

Warlord – Rock the Foe Hammer – Review

January 1, 2000

Pillaging the villages of Neurosis, Today Is The Day, and Unsane, Warlord is an entity that deserves fear from all.

Stretch Arm Strong – Rituals of Life – Review

September 1, 1999

Plenty of gang shouts and breakdown parts to warm your high school bully’s heart, but there’s also enough “sad, in an ‘Orion’ by Metallica way” in the riffs.