One thing I'll say about these guys, a couple minutes into it rhe album, and a few colorful sentences later, you get the idea that they just don't give a shit. "The Decline," however, makes a definite statement for sure, albeit throughout one ambitious eighteen-minute outburst that tears through the seams of our perceived life, liberty and pursuit of a warped sense of - happiness? "NOFX" makes a lot of sense and if there's one way I've found to truly judge a worthwhile punk band besides the simple three chord agitation and atypical anti-establishment bashing, it's all in what they say. I mean all I needed to see was "One more pill to kill the pain, living through conformity," and they've got my respect.

"The Decline" is not hard to figure out and on the way through our somewhat disillusioning descent here, it's all laid out in an active barrage broken into neatly packaged little sequences and a verbal assault second to none. Welcome to the land of the free. . .