Lollipop Magazine

Ulver – A Quick Fix of Melancholy – Review

March 8, 2004

Quasi-classical orchestration and operatic divas create beautiful and nightmarish arias. It’s all irresistibly sinister.

Antimatter – Lights Out – Review

November 12, 2003

Heavy like Pink Floyd instead of Pantera, Antimatter is quiet, open, rolling like thunder on the horizon. Duncan Patterson (ex-Anathema) creates actual songs.

Enslaved – Below The Lights – Review

October 22, 2003

These black metal extremists create their most inspired work to date. A seven-song masterwork, intrinsically dark and inherently evil.

Virgin Black – Elegant… and Dying – Review

October 8, 2003

Anyone who’s ever loved the work of Dead Can Dance, Amber Asylum, and Trial of The Bow are no doubt going to be drawn to this release.

Darkthrone – Hate Them – Review

October 1, 2003

Easily one of the best albums of 2003, Norway’s duo Darkthrone returns with a truly haunting, evil, and vile specimen of black metal.

The Gathering – Souvenirs – Review

September 11, 2003

Moody and expressive, sometimes dreamy and scarce, sometimes “trip rock,” Anneke is now using her lovely voice comfortably, not to win awards or show off.

Madder Mortem – Deadlands – Review

September 11, 2003

Vocalist Agnete Kirkevaag is overseer of the complex, mind-frying prog metal that roils beneath her wings at a fidelity level mercilessly exact.

Star Of Ash – Iter.Viator – Review

May 30, 2003

Those familiar with her work as Ihriel, Peccatum, will find the mystery and intrigue remaining firmly implanted in Heidi S. Tveitan’s new project, Star of Ash.

Ulver – Lyckantropen Themes – Review

May 16, 2003

Soundtrack to the Swedish short film, which has a visually disturbing feel of impending doom as revealed by the dark and dramatic still imagery within.

Bathory – Nordland I – Review

May 16, 2003

A Bathory album of panoramic yet claustrophobic Viking metal that creaks like a chainmailed soldier of doom riding high atop weathered maritime planks.