Tim Den – Page 121 – Lollipop Magazine

Favez – A Sad Ride on the Line Again – Review

January 1, 2000

The kind of rock that doesn’t mess with technical wizardry or fancy production, but instead concentrates on performing touching and melodic serenades.

Eyelid – Conflict’s Invitation – Review

January 1, 2000

The screaming’s urgent, the music’s complex and involved, the playing’s refreshingly unpredictable but still powerful. Eyelid pulls out some intense emotions.

Die My Will – Piecemeal – Split – Review

January 1, 2000

Die My Will isn’t far behind with their Coalesce/semi-Cannibal Corpse grind. They’ve even got distorted bass on some of the tracks! Now that’s quality grind.

D.B.S. – Some Boys Got It, Most Men Don’t – Review

January 1, 2000

Not that the two sound alike, but D.B.S. and Hot Water Music share some similarities. Energy and passion, in particular.

Garrison – The Bend Before the Break – Review

October 1, 1999

Infectious, booty-bustin’ beats and melodic chug-chug guitars, the intricate arrangements in each of the five songs here provide more than great melodies.

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.

Starmarket – Calendar – Review

September 1, 1999

Thick guitars, perfectly designed arpeggios, mouth-watering melodies, and rhythms resembling a 15-ton steak, each of the 12 tracks lives and breathes.

Spitfire – The Dead Next Door – Review

September 1, 1999

Got the energy, spastic tendencies, torturous sludge grinds, eye-popping screams, evil guitars, and all-around noisy shit to fit right in with the family.

Piebald – If It Weren’t For Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains For All Of Us – Review

September 1, 1999

There’s enough empty silliness in the music that makes this Piebald album, for once, work. Yes, you heard it right: This is not that bad a record.

Speak 714 – The Scum Also Rises – Review

September 1, 1999

They’re here to make sure you treat everybody with respect, and they’re doing it by playing some furious (yet tasty) melodic old-school.