Sum 41's mega-hit All Killer No Filler lifted riffs from Motley Crue and the Beastie Boys to make a formidably dumb racket, but Does This Look Infected, the follow-up, finds the Canadian quartet reining in its spiky-haired insolence. Drawing musical inspiration from toothy metal icons Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, Does This Look Infected? is not only meatier than its predecessor, but songs such as "Still Waiting", with its opening refrain of "So am I still waiting, for this world to stop hating," and "Yesterday.com", reveal social consciousness creeping in. The album is not completely deprived of the goofy, booger-gobbling skate punk that launched the band, but it provides convincing evidence that the News has taken over CITV as Sum 41's preferred tour-bus viewing. --Aidin Vaziri
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