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Title: very worthy effort
Review: This one gets slagged as their second worst, after COD. The childish art on the cover of each doesn't help, either. And I admit the lyrical themes in MC are silly in two or three places (e.g. Dragon Time), but it still captures the Vitus feel. The Troll, while a dumb theme if taken literally, I believe is best interpreted symbolically ("When I fall down, in the stree,t people stop and laugh at me.") I think of the Troll as referring to the dope fiend, or the street person (also, the theme in Shooting Gallery). The songs occasionally approach upbeat (by Vitus standards), but the Troll and Shooting Gallery are sludge delights. Make no mistake, this work knows how to represent the defeated and the downtrodden.
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