Reception
| Professional ratings | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Metal Storm | (9.2/10) |
| Q Magazine | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Sputnikmusic | |
| Stylus Magazine | A− |
| Dallas Music Guide | |
Critical reaction to Killing Joke has been mostly positive. Outburn Magazine gave it a perfect 100 score, calling it "the most vicious album of the year." Billboard awarded it an 80 out of 100, noting that "Grohl's furious playing fits perfectly with the wall of rage erected by Joke vocalist Jaz Coleman and fellow founders Geordie Walker on guitar and Youth on bass." Justin Press of the Dallas Music Guide gave the album an 8 out of 10, saying: "Though not their best work (that still goes to Fire Dances), Killing Joke have provided an adrenaline shot to the nerve of thinking man's metal music."
John Robb of Playlouder said the album "may well be the best rock record you'll hear all year." Alec A. Head of Satan Stole My Teddybear said, "One of the best albums of the year? Most definitely." David Jeffries of Allmusic said, "While Killing Joke's discography has more than its fair share of awkward and overly ambitious albums, they've once again returned to the fury and focus of their classics." Rolling Stone gave the album a 2 out of 5, saying that "all the humorless gloom and doom feels oppressive after a while." Q Magazine also gave a score of 2 out of 5, claiming that the album was "patchy." The album holds a score of 79 out of 100 on Metacritic.
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