Well, it\u2019s been a fun couple of years since Bad Religion released their last record. First, they lost guitarist Greg Hetson and a few months later, drummer Brooks Wackerman left to join Avenged Sevenfold. Since then, the band has regrouped with guitarist Mike Dimkich (The Cult) and drummer Jamie Miller (Snot, theStart) and other than that haven\u2019t changed much about their sound. Opening track \u201cChaos From Within\u201d is a blistering two-minute warning to all these other \u201cpunk\u201d bands that have been changing their sound that BR is here to stay and isn\u2019t ever going to change anything. <\/p>\n
This is a bit different record than 2013\u2019s amazing True North<\/i>. \u201cMy Sanity\u201d feels like a song written for the radio. It\u2019s a bit slower and melancholier; it\u2019s not terrible, but it\u2019s not a song you\u2019ll end up repeating. The same thing goes for \u201cCandidate,\u201d which sounds like Green Day circa 2000 and that\u2019s probably not good for a band like BR. There are slower songs on here that I wasn\u2019t expecting, but I guess it\u2019s par for the course. Even though it\u2019s a bit more polished than other stuff here, \u201cEnd Of History\u201d is a really interesting song that grabs you by the ear and demands attention. The title track is a swift little number that really shows the band hasn\u2019t forgotten their roots.<\/p>\n
But the bad thing about the whole thing is that it feels like one of their late \u201890s Atlantic records, middling and average but with a handful of good tracks. \u201cOld Regime\u201d and the blistering \u201cFaces Of Grief\u201d are two of the better tracks toward the end of the disc. Despite sounding a bit contrived and hokey \u201cBig Black Dog\u201d is a nice diss against Trump, and who doesn\u2019t love a song dissing Trump these days?<\/p>\n
Overall, this is a decent return for these punk legends, but it won\u2019t ever rank in the top tier of their discography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5960],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-45628","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-bad-religion","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45628"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}