Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Way back when Kingsway were taking Frontline artists as the 'cutting edge' of Christian music, Mad At The World were a wonderfully weird techno-rock duo all, drum boxes and sequencers and with a singer who sounded like he was a Brit New Romantic. They've still got that singer (Roger Rose) but most everything else has changed, and now play near-metal guitar rock with buzz saw axes and drums that hit you in the chest. Roger still has a way with a lyric. "House Of Sin" for instance - "It ain't safe/It ain't clean and the doors don't lock/It's got demons in the walls and sometimes they talk" - while their tongue-in-cheek paean to sex ("Isn't Sex A Wonderful Thing") shows that Charlie Peacock isn't the only Christian around to bring that great Unmentionable out of the bedroom and into a song lyric. Mad At The World have made some mediocre albums in the past but this one I'd recommend to anyone looking for brash Christian rock with lyrics which go beyond 'let's do battle for Jesus' truisms.

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