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Title: A replay of "Infected"
Review: I'm not sure why anyone thought it necessary to reissue this album, except that its themes of conflict between Islam and Christianity became more prescient after Islamic fundamentalist terrorists mass-murdered innocent people on September 11, 2001. For the most part, the album sounds like a replay of "Infected," which sounded much fresher than "Mind Bomb" when it was released two years before this album. Critics had panned "Infected" for sounding too self-absorbed, and "Mind Bomb" hardly improves upon such solipsism. Actually, both albums sound very dated, as if that "Manchester sound" from the late 1980s and early 1990s were put into a time capsule. I listen to the drum track from "Armageddon Days (Are Here Again)," and expect the chorus to repeat, "Face the face...got to face the face!" from Pete Townsend's "White City" (which was used in a TV ad). The silliness of the music undermines any warning of the coming apocalypise.
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