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  • Summary: This is the sixth full-length studio release for the British punk band led by John Robb.
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. May 24, 2013
    80
    A musical punch-up from start to finish, Goldblade choose their targets well as one blow is delivered after another. You might want to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in.
  2. May 24, 2013
    70
    The album works best when they pick up the pace, cranking out two minute gems like My Mind Is Like An Atom Bomb and They Kiss Like Humans, with its genuinely disconcerting backing bellows.
  3. Mojo
    May 24, 2013
    60
    [A] thrilling state-of-a-broken-nation address. [Jun 2013, p.95]
  4. Classic Rock Magazine
    Jun 26, 2013
    60
    As equipment hums, bass rumbles and Robb bellows over joyfully insistent melodies, it becomes clear that The Terror Of Modern Life is the sound of a band hopelessly in love with the music that made them. [Jul 2013, p.88]
  5. Uncut
    May 24, 2013
    60
    On the whole, it's a little in hock to its influences, although the closing eight-minute title track is a fine exception. [Jun 2013, p.73]
  6. Jun 4, 2013
    40
    Signs of progression are, admittedly, belatedly embraced by the ham-fisted, if heartfelt dub-out Serious Business and the bowel-quaking Sunn O)))-style title track, but it’s too little too late.