Reception
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| Allmusic | |
| Hot Press | (9/12) |
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| Ultimate Guitar | (9.3/10) |
The Process of Belief was released on January 22, 2002 and is the first Bad Religion album distributed via Epitaph Records since 1993's Recipe for Hate. It peaked at number 49 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and also number 1 on Top Independent Albums, making it Bad Religion's highest U.S. chart position to date. The album sold very well, due to success of its radio hit "Sorrow", and yielded many concert favorites like "Kyoto Now!", "Epiphany" and "Supersonic." The Process of Belief also became the first Bad Religion album to chart on the Irish Charts, spanning two top twenty singles.
The Allmusic review by Jack Rabid awards the album 3 out of 5 stars and states: "It's like a batch of outtakes from their 1988 comeback LP, Suffer, or the amazing juggernauts that followed, No Control and Against the Grain. But successive immersions into the new LP's brute, lashing power and wild honey melodies disarms such critical impulses as efficiently as a martial arts master."
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