First of all: I would describe myself as a big fan of not necessarily Sum 41. But this underlines my opinion only the quality of the new album: Ten years have passed since that Sum 41 have succeeded with "All Killer No Filler" the big breakthrough. Ten years in which the band had so by external circumstances, some changes in sound and occupation accept: started as a pop-punk band Green Day and the great role models to emulate The Offspring, but never reached their quality, "mutated" Sum 41 suddenly to posenden Metal-pop band. This was due to guitarist Dave 'Brown Sound' Baksh, who shortly thereafter left the band. 2007 an attempt was made then to the third comeback with "Underclass Hero": this album went away from embarrassing Bravo metal, and returned to the pop-punk roots. But frontman Deryck Whibley apparently thirsted for more, the disk sounded like an "American Idiot" for the poor and had only partially. With this in mind, I've not promised too much of "Screaming Bloody Murder". But what a surprise awaited me when I then heard the record yet, "Reason to Believe" starts behaving and comes up with a dismal reef until then starts the song and shortly thereafter the pace is tightened. Thus, the same makes the first song clearly what Canadians did in the last four years: They have grown. But do not misunderstand, I do not mean an adult: the music is the best mix of the said directions Punk & Metal, enriched with a clever fun of Pop. Only this time, the band has a few more times this mixture specially seasoned, slimmed down here and there, now and given something to until everything fits together. The result is the perfect interface between the power-pop for rebellious teenagers, like Sum 41 have still presented a decade ago, and sufficient claim for listeners who have grown with this band. The obligatory question of how to describe this sound, it is difficult to define and this time it clearly: it is the Sum-41 sound. These include varied song structures, catchy choruses and experiments that finally succeed times. Although the songwriter Whibley still can not compete with Billie Joe Armstrong, but he is catching up fast. And at the end I can call myself a fan of Sum 41 still without shame.
