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Mar 29, 2011Even if there's a fair amount of affected British accents and overdriven guitars, it's a far cry from the mall-punk rebellion of Underclass Hero, the melodramatic bombast flavored with metallic flecks and solipsistic acoustic pity, all giving Screaming Bloody Murder a grander, richer palette than any other Sum 41 record.
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Mar 29, 2011While we believe that Sum 41 have the potential to succeed without the aid of power chords, the fact that only a handful of the musical ideas on the album are fully developed makes for a frustrating listening experience.
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Entertainment WeeklyApr 8, 2011Murder ultimately drowns in flavorless thrashing. [1 Apr 2011, p.77]
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Kerrang!Apr 4, 2011Sadly, Sum 41 spread the good stuff far too thin over an ambitious but not always successful 15 songs, and, to paraphrase an old title of theirs, there's too much filler and not enough killer material to truly convince. [26 Mar 2011, p.52]
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Mar 31, 2011They're still making forays into metal (Crash), but most Sum fans will agree that the band just hasn't been the same since guitarist Brownsound left town.
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Mar 29, 2011Whibley cleans out his soul closet over operatic hard rock, rain-swept balladry and bad Green Day opera punk--often crammed into the same song. If he's trying to show breakups are arduous, it worked.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 74 out of 87
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Mixed: 6 out of 87
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Negative: 7 out of 87
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