Lollipop Magazine

Antimatter – Saviour – Review

January 3, 2003

Ex-Anathema bassist Duncan Patterson and long-time friend Michael Moss flirt with Portishead styles, and release a hauntingly beautiful album.

Agalloch – The Mantle – Review

January 3, 2003

There’s a real chilly, sparse beauty here. Mostly acoustic, with very few vocals (which is good: the vocals are echo-drenched blah when they surface).

At The End of Infinity – [Echoes & Thoughts of Wonder] – Review

November 11, 2002

The bands whisper of longing and desire, yet quietly seethe and stare into the fire, thinking terrible thoughts. Get this if you like Dead Can Dance and metal.

Arcturus – The Sham Mirrors – Interview

August 2, 2002

An interview with Kristoffer “Garm” Rygg

Virgin Black – Sombre Romantic – Review

July 12, 2002

With symphonic magnificence and technical proficiency, song strength is emphasized over virtuosic tendencies.

Edguy – Mandrake – Review

March 29, 2002

The gutsy vocals give the often skippy classic heavy metal style a much-needed kick, but these Germans fill out the front of their tight trousers quite well.

Green Carnation – Light of Day, Day of Darkness – Review

March 29, 2002

One continuous hour-long song, yet is somehow an effortless listen, a plush escape combining Amorphis, Floyd, folk, and the most frigid of Scandinavian dooms.

Scholomance – The Immortality Murder – Review

March 15, 2002

Scholomance prove that Americans can gut and reconstitute esoteric black metal in the craggy name of Van Der Graaf prog as handily as Norwegians.

Love Like Blood – Chronology of a Love Affair – Review

February 22, 2002

So, like, it’s a comp, only it’s one band doing all the songs, or, better yet, it’s a Goth rock cover band’s CD. Yipee.

Nokturnal Mortum – Lunar Poetry – Review

February 22, 2002

Lunar Poetry is Nokturnal Mortum’s first album from, like, ’91 or so. This 10-song reissue seethes for almost an hour.