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As
far as ideas go, Shihad's drummer Tom Larkin admits that the
short-lived name-change to 'Pacifier' was a bad one. "It was
a big, big mistake," he chuckles. But considering the hysterical
post-9/11 climate the band was caught up in while trying to
break the US market, the last thing they needed was connotations
with the concept of 'jihad" or "holy war." Thankfully, it
didn't take them long to remember that conformity equals enemy
in the world of rock'n'roll...
Bless
you, Lenin Simos. The first time I listened to this album
it didn't grab me. Nor the second time. Now, however, it's
a contender for my favourite album of 2005 - and it's all
because my fellow dB Magazine writer made me listen to it
again after asking "Hey, why aren't you reviewing this one?
I'd have thought it was exactly your sort of thing." And now,
after a month of daily play, it most certainly is. Or perhaps
I'm now its sort of thing....