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Title: Turning for the worst.
Review: Controlled by Hate, the bands fourth outing marks a huge change in direction. Though not their worst albums (those were to be all the albums following this one) it is indicative of the coming slide. The loud and angry, yet intelligible, lyrics of the first couple albums are still here; yet, they have lost their poetic and gospel-like qualities. Muir's underlying sensitivity-hidden-beneath-a-maddened-frame are traded in for conventional metal anger without wit. The Skater-punk nuance is also dumped for a gansta persona (just check out the cover art)as if being a skater just wasn't hard enough for their image. Ironically, it was the following album, Lights..., that really got Suicidal Tendencies noticed but, this one is truly the last Sui albums worth checking out.
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