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May 15, 2012No joke: Rize Of The Fenix is one of the year's most enjoyable hard-rock records.
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May 15, 2012[The song] "Rize of the Fenix" is so powerful, so perfect, so representative of what these guys do well, what follows is almost sure to pale in comparison. Luckily, the highlights keep on coming.
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Kerrang!Jun 7, 2012And so, just like that, Tenacious D are back. They're funny, they're absurd and they're hotter than a phoenix. Sorry, fenix. Let's just hope we don't have to wait another six years for the next one. [May 2012, p.52]
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May 18, 2012Rize of the Fenix does amount to a rousing comeback for Tenacious D: they're back to their old tricks, oblivious to whether the world at large actually cares about their shenanigans.
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May 29, 2012Whether regaling us with an ode to a middle-aged prostitute or outlining their plans for solar domination, they're on fine form.
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May 22, 2012All in all, it delivers the chuckles and a few guffaws, even if they are hitting up against the law of diminishing returns.
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May 15, 2012Much like Black's sagging teacher in "School of Rock," this album lives its joke about redemption and returns to past glory.
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May 24, 2012he best songs on Rize Of The Fenix address that real-life redemption story....Still, it's hard to ignore the fact that the joke is kind of stale.
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May 16, 2012Yet another viciously fun balls-out rocker of an album.
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May 16, 2012Rize of the Fenix proves that Tenacious D still reign supreme. But maybe only burrito or chicken supreme and not quite Cutlass Supreme this time out.
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May 15, 2012The humor practiced by Black and cohort Kyle Gass hasn't evolved much since [2008's "Pick Of Destiny"]; Fenix is loaded with classic-rock-aping material which simultaneously admires and lampoons everything from Star Wars ("Deth Starr") to organized religion ("Throwdown").
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May 15, 2012You wonder if Black and Gass have finally turned into the overblown wanksters they parody.
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May 17, 2012A colossal disappointment. Tenacious D's album number three fails to capture the comic energy of the band's prior musical output and pales in comparison to other, much funnier rock music moments by the band's contemporaries.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 41
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Mixed: 7 out of 41
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Negative: 2 out of 41
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