Lollipop Magazine

Mammoth Volume – Review

January 1, 2000

Like Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan,” a side of The Sabbath Show that gets down-played but is as emotionally-integrated into their “thing” as the stompass is.

Clawfinger – Review

June 1, 1999

Clawfinger have Faith No More tendencies, and the ability to blend huge pop choruses with samples, scratches, Meshuggah-ish riffs, and stompin’ and rompin’.

Terra Firma – Review

June 1, 1999

Terra Firma have found new ways to do stoner rock, by digging back into the past and then into jumpy American proto-Sabs like Pentagram and Sir Lord Baltimore.

Monostar – The Airport – Review

June 1, 1999

Monostar evokes visions of soft-haired, prepubescent raver boys cuddling into knockoff ’70s jerseys, considering the timelessness of their flaking body glitter.

In The Groove – Review

June 1, 1999

This comp swings a huge horse dick of walloping smut that pulls from bands you may not recognize yet, but will if you have any interest in organic meta-spew.

Orange Goblin – Time Travelling Blues – Review

April 1, 1999

We get as much Kiss, Deep Purple, and Mountain as we do Sabbath here, all delivered with tongue-in-cheek, really playing on this whole space-brain theme.

Sleep – Jerusalem – Review

April 1, 1999

Jerusalem is often a one chord mudbank of crumbled sludge, making just enough twists to keep us from nodding off, but really falling to the rear of the pack.

Sheavy – The Electric Sleep – Review

April 1, 1999

Sheavy enter a cosmic Monster Magnet zone, loping into slow blues, acoustic flights o’ fancy and of course tons of Sabbath-steeped power chords.

Lid – In the Mushroom – Review

April 1, 1999

Lid is Trouble’s singer (Eric Wagner) and Anathema’s Danny Cavanaugh. It’s damn near a Trouble record on ‘shrooms.

Roachpowder – Viejo Diablo – Review

April 1, 1999

Roachpowder are a Swedish thing, fronted by a Canadian, but pertinently produced by Entombed twiddler Tomas Skogsberg.