Reception
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| Metal Storm | (8.2/10) |
Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover called Democracy "Killing Joke's best album in 11 years", praising it for "return them to the assault and battery of their seminal, self-titled 1980 debut." Adrien Begrand of PopMatters, however, felt the album sounded "watered down", saying: "Most noticeably, the acoustic guitar-driven title track sounds limp, the Joke a shadow of their former selves, and much of the rest of the album tends to sleepwalk in the same way".
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