Lollipop Magazine

Immersed In Blood – Killing Season – Review

July 13, 2003

Along with fellow Swedes Aeon, Immersed In Blood bring the Mortician-style fuckitall that’s often missing in the death metal world these days.

Dolour – Suburbiac – Review

July 13, 2003

If Jason Falkner was a 20-year-old kid obsessed with ’60s pop, but couldn’t resist playing into the whole emo aesthetics, he’d be Dolour (aka Shane Tutmarc).

Bird Gets The Smile – Review

July 13, 2003

Dueling vocal harmonies over dissonant arpeggios and noisy distortion make for a ying yang effect of poppy/sinewy combo that’s tasty to this mouth.

Ben Folds – Live – Review

July 13, 2003

Perfect vocal pitch, extra energetic piano arpeggios, brilliant ad lib, and an Elton John cover. The classics are here, including material from the ‘Five era.

Cult of Luna – The Beyond – Interview

July 13, 2003

An interview with guitarist Johannes Persson

Grave – Back from the Grave – Interview

July 2, 2003

An interview with vocalist/guitarist Ola Lindgren

Contaminated 5.0 – Review

July 2, 2003

Death, technical, sludge-y, grinding, stoner, and occasionally “weird.” The best are death metal gods. Some decent stuff with horrible crap in between.

David Singer & The Sweet Science – Civil Wars – Review

July 2, 2003

Flowin’ major-to-minor resolutions, Elton John/Ben Folds piano tear jerkers… a fine collection of misty morning tunes, indeed.

Cursive – The Ugly Organ – Review

July 2, 2003

The Ugly Organ makes Hitchcockian tension out of barb-wire guitars, eruptive At The Drive-In energy, and a highly-strung sense of desperation.

Immolation – Unholy Cult – Review

July 2, 2003

For the first time since the NY band’s inception, the ominous, wretched cries of the guitar bends have been traded in for traditional grinds and chugs.