Lights…Camera…Revolution album cover
Lights…Camera…Revolution

Suicidal Tendencies

1990
Epic

On their fifth full-length, Suicidal Tendencies’ brand of thrash grew more intricate, progressive (thanks to Rocky George’s almost classical leads) and funky (thanks to new bassist Robert Trujillo, also a member of frontman Mike Muir’s side project, Infectious Grooves). The opening track, “You Can’t Bring Me Down,” sums up their shift in attitude, from morose introspection to outwardly directed rage. Muir isn’t just moaning about his own problems, he’s turning his fire on society on tracks like “Give It Revolution” and the anti-televangelist (it was the late ’80s) “Send Me Your Money.” His dark sense of humor is present, too, on tracks like “Lovely” and “Disco’s Out, Murder’s In,” the latter a critique of “if it bleeds, it leads” news coverage. Musically, this is the band’s strongest album by far, easily the equal of contemporaneous work by Anthrax or Megadeth.

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