Does This Look Infected?
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| Studio album by Sum 41 | ||||
| Released | November 26, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Studio | Avatar Studios, New York City, New York and Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario | |||
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| Length | 31:06 39:18 (United Kingdom Edition) |
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Aquarius (Canada) Island/Mercury (United States) |
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| Producer | Greig Nori | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B-) |
| NME | 7/10 |
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Does This Look Infected? is the second studio album by rock band Sum 41. It was released on November 26, 2002.
The album is a lot more aggressive, darker and heavier than Sum 41's previous studio album, All Killer No Filler. It also has less elements of pop music than All Killer No Filler. Described as horror punk,punk rock,pop punk, and melodic hardcore, the album uses elements of heavy metal,hardcore punk,thrash metal,d-beat and, on the song "Thanks for Nothing",hip hop. Although the album has been described as pop punk by some sources, Counterculture.co.uk considered it an album that shows Sum 41 abandoning the pop punk genre for a more standard punk rock style. Amy Sciarretto of ARTISTdirect wrote that Does This Look Infected? soldifies Sum 41 as "true punk stalwarts". The music on Does This Look Infected? has been compared to bands such as The Offspring, P.O.D., Metallica, Rancid, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Bad Religion, NOFX, Green Day and Blink-182.
The album's lyrical topics are darker than the lyrical topics on All Killer No Filler. Sum 41's vocalist Deryck Whibley said "A lot of stuff happened in the past year that opened our eyes to new things," Whibley said. "The whole last year has been really crazy around the world. There's been so much stuff going on and it's been so televised. I think we've all become more aware. When we were writing the last record everything was happy go lucky. Now this time we've seen a little bit more and our eyes have been opened up a little bit." The album's lyrical topics include hatred, war, internal demons, disliking the world, suicide, drugs, insomnia, and HIV. The song "Mr. Amsterdam" is about an embittered man. Deryck Whibley said "'Mr. Amsterdam' is sort of about a guy who hates everything, very bitter person who kind of hates the world," he explains. "He's against the world." The song also is about the complacency of pop culture that was contemporary in 2002, the year that Does This Look Infected? was released in, and technology that was really new during the year that the album was released in. Deryck Whibley explained the meaning of "Mr. Amsterdam" saying "We depend so much on new technology to make sure that we don't have to do anything," Whibley said. "Everything's being laid out so we can sit at home and do nothing and never leave our homes. You can order all your groceries from the computer. You can do anything you want. You can just sit there and become fatter. And I think that's bad."
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