Sum 41
13 Voices

For these Canadians the sum is 41 and not the ultimate number that is one higher. They are back after five years of silence and they are back with many voices for their sixth album. Sum 41 is a fairly well-known band that I have heard about but not really heard so this will be my first acquaintance with this band. And it doesn’t look very exciting with a black front with some skulls on the front, ten track names on the back and names of a quintet inside – but looks can be deceiving and I can assure anyone reading that this sounds much better than it looks.

Simplistic punkish metal music with pop-punk tendencies is how I would describe this album. Good energy and great production, the vocals are great and the songs are relatively varied through the ten tracks that play for 37 minutes. It is straight to the point and nothing complicated just easy to take in powerful music for 37 minutes. I think it has proven to be a very good first acquaintance with this band. It is a strong comeback album.

It starts with murdering of crows and then just goes on until it ends with something twisted by design, and there is a lot of great stuff in there. A really strong album where hit songs like Breaking the Chain, God Save Us All and my favourite song War makes me want to return to the album and hear it over and over again. I can highly recommend this very great album, especially if you like straight to the point heavy punkish metal music. Great stuff!

Perhaps I have missed something by not discovering these guys in the past, but at least I have heard this one and it is great. A collection of catchy songs that should be strong hits playing all over the radio and whatever, and I don’t think I need to write much more than that. I suggest you get the album and find out that what I write is the absolute truth.

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