Artist Bad Religion

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Bad Religion

Some seminal groups end before the world wants them to (The Beatles), and some keep at it interminably (The Rolling Stones), long after their prime but more or less coasting on iconic status. Bad Religion falls into the latter category; the band has essentially remade the same album for nearly 20 years. It’s a melodic, politically minded record with lots of $10 words on the lyric sheet and layers of impeccably rendered backing vocals; it’s a record a lot like Dissent Of Man, which was released in September. If you’re not already a Bad Religion fan, you might as well move along, but for longtime supporters, Dissent Of Man actually is a decent late-period effort from a defining SoCal punk act.

Updated 09/29/2010