The End Records – Page 7 – Lollipop Magazine

Frantic Bleep – The Sense Apparatus – Review

June 13, 2005

Swirls of blackened psychedelia and flourishes of prog-metallic flair, melodic vocals, melancholic keyboards, eerie atmospheric chantings, the works.

Darkthrone – Sardonic Wrath – Review

June 13, 2005

As a mocker of black metal, I was sure Darkthrone was going to just get dropped in my shit pile. Slap that corpse-paint on me like King Diamond, I’m a convert!

Crisis – Like Sheep Led To Slaughter – Interview

February 7, 2005

An interview with singer Karyn Crisis

Asrai – Touch in the Dark – Review

January 10, 2005

The Asrai are small, fragile, female beings who polymorph into puddles of water. Asrai is a disarmingly honest blend of prog rock, new wave, and Gothic metal.

Peccatum – Lost in Reverie – Review

December 6, 2004

Three records into a surreal career that has them quietly becoming the greatest, most fearless, most exploratory avant garde hard-ish act in the drowning pool.

Aina – Days of Rising Doom – The Metal Opera – Review

September 27, 2004

Pretty much the final word in the metal opera sweepstakes, the apex of achievement and effort versus the disproportionately minimal attention this will get.

Winds – The Imaginary Direction of Time – Review

September 20, 2004

A mellower, more laid-back cousin to Borknagar and Vintersorg’s journeys through folk, classical music, and prog rock.

Fall Of The Leafe – Volvere – Review

September 13, 2004

Evolving evermore, these enigmatic Finns have transformed into a blasting rock act amidst Paradise Lost, mid-paced Metallica, Sentenced, and Dream Theater.

After Forever – Exordium – Review

August 30, 2004

Imagine the progressive arrangements of Dream Theater, accompanied by a siren whose voice is flavored by a Gothic and metal undercarriage. This is Exordium.

Impaled Nazarene – All That You Fear – Review

June 28, 2004

These misanthropes have the good sense to blend real punk, thrash, scorching solos, and blackened howls into their assault. And it doesn’t sound like shit.