The Great Milenko - Critical Reception

Critical Reception

Reviews for The Great Milenko were generally unfavorable. Entertainment Weekly music critic David Browne gave the record a C-minus rating: " its puerile humor and intentionally ugly metal-rap tunes, the album feels oddly dated." Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that The Great Milenko is "the sort of record you wish they would take off the stereo at excruciating frat parties." In The Great Rock Discography, Martin Charles Strong gave the album five out of ten stars. The album received two out of five stars in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, in which Ben Sisario identified it as the album in which "the group came into its own".

Although the reviews were mostly negative, some critics complimented the album's improved sound over its precursors. Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that the album was "a better record than predecessors, boasting a tougher sound and some actual hooks, without losing the juvenile vulgarity that pleased their following," and added that "it is better than the rest of ICP's work." David Browne said that "Milenko is better produced than the duo's earlier output (Slash grinds out metal chords on Halls of Illusions), and Pass Me By is a genuinely melodic song." In 2009, Fangoria named The Great Milenko an iconic horrorcore album.