Lollipop Magazine

Epoch of Unlight – Caught in the Unlight! – Review

February 22, 2002

Now a tight and taut three-piece, zipping along, perfecting and honing their unique sound which is increasingly melodic, less black and more thrash.

Love History – Anasazi – Review

June 3, 2001

A complex and mind-warping debut that combines the intricacy of Rush, the keyboards of Deep Purple, clean and harsh vocals, and the power of My Dying Bride.

Nokturnal Mortum – NeChrist – Review

September 1, 2000

Long, angry, sounds like shit, is packaged with simple photocopies, fonts ya can’t read, and low-contrast photos of long-haired guys in corpsepaint.

Sculptured – Apollo Ends – Review

June 1, 2000

Sculptured are an intellectually and emotionally intense purveyor of metal progression that have crafted a headphone album.

Mistiggo Varggoth Darkestra – The Key to the Gates of Apocalypse – Review

September 1, 1999

A 72 minute single track from Varggoth of Nokturnal Mortem. There are magnificent moments, and lots of scratch-the-surface-with-a-rusty-meat-hook filler.

Agalloch – Pale Folklore – Review

September 1, 1999

A mixture of Goth rock and black metal vocals, occasional doomy plods, interspersed with wind-swept mountain views and staggering ballerina keyboard tinkles.

Nokturnal Mortum – To the Gates of – Review

June 1, 1999

It has subtle elements of pagan celebration and folklore, but this motherfucker starts in high gear and spends the whole 50 minutes flying by blurred scenery.

Scholomance – A Treatise on Love – Review

April 1, 1999

Scholomance is what it professes to be, a mesmerizing pastiche of progressive black metal, soaking up all the complicated habits of the centuries.

Until The End of Time – Review

April 1, 1999

This 8-song, 47-minute sampler is worth the bucks, just so you can toss off names of fine bands not even yer know-it-all knows.

Epoch of Unlight – What Will Be Has Been – Review

April 1, 1999

Rum-flushed progressive black metal but with a hint of train-wrecked Witchery and The Haunted. Yeah, baby!