My So Called Knife
On its brutal new album My So Called Knife, aggro sextet Lollipop Lust Kill takes a wild ride on the dark side, combining pummeling modern guitars with moments of eerie tranquility. Front man Evvy Pedder alternates between Goth-like intonations and Pantera-like bellowing, and their lurid lyrics paint portraits of murder and mayhem. "If you read any history book, they romanticize war and death," observes bassist D. Human. "It's in basic human nature. We're just saying it and not doing it. The only thing that separates us from other people is they actually do it. We just think it."