After years of going up and down and moving fluidly from genre to genre and from moderate popularity to obscurity, Therapy? has made an album which, if there were any justice in the world, go platinum. There isn't justice so as a result the brilliant blend of pop-punk vocals and heavy instrumentation will go unheard by the masses. Two of the most brilliant parodies are on this album. "Hey Satan - You Rock" parodies Power Metal and the rediculous things that many bands do, without setting themselves apart from it. "Voodoo Doll" parodies pop-punk with grace, class, and incredibly catchy lyrics and melody. The whole album is filled with clever lyrics a sardonic tone and evidence that Therapy? is an incredibly tight band.

Therapy? burst out of Northern Ireland in the early '90s with a sound that mixed punk and metal, melody and menace, and in 1994 released one of the decade's best hard rock records, ``Troublegum.'' The last few years, though, have seen rougher going, with a shrinking audience in the States and younger, whiny nu-metal bands becoming all the rage. A lesser band would have given up, but Therapy? has come back EXTREMELY strong with this CD, which has all the pop-laced mayhem longtime fans have known and loved them for. ``Hey Satan -- You Rock,'' ``If It Kills Me'' and ``Rust,'' in particular, are as good as anything they've ever done, which is saying something. A very special band, to say the least.

Before I put the disc in, I was fully prepared to write a book's worth of negatives on how this Therapy? release doesn't stack up to their past stuff. Ready to bash it for being too murky like Suicide Pact, or too uneven like Infernal Love, or too sterile like Shameless. Because, as we all know, every release since Troublegum has been "not good enough." Well, i am more than pleased to report that I have no complaints with this album. None! High Anxiety marks a return to big fat riffs, and nothing but guitar/bass/drums. No ridiculous production theatrics, no layers of studio effects, no slow songs! It's all rock and it's all good. So if you were waiting for Therapy? to return to what made them great, your 10+ year wait is officially over. For the first time in a long time, I have hope for this band.

After I've heard Suicide Pact, I totally lost interest in for what was once my favourite group.

After more than 6 years of that album, I wanted to see what is Therapy? doing these days. Well, I like all of the albums, from Shameless to One cure fits all. SP:YF is still the album that puts me off every time I hear some of utterly bad and mumbling Cairn's vocals.

Generally speaking, if I can say what I _never_ liked in Therapy?, that must be Andy's filtered or mumbling vocals... and he likes to do that from time to time.

Fortunately, High anxiety is nothing like that. Andy shines vocally on this album.

It's uptempo, straight in your face album.

All songs are good, except that some have a mild mediocre feel - for example, watch you go, nobody here but us... it's just generic, you feel like you've heard this kind of songs zillion times by various bands...

Other songs are GREAT.

If it kills me is possibly their best single since Troublegum days. Just great upbeat tune that is a blast from start to finish!

This album also has few unusual shiny gems: Not in any name, Stand in line, Rust. Three awesome songs, quite different from anything on this album, but they fit there nicely.

Oh yeah, there's one hidden track called Never ending. It's quite good!

Its better than Shameless...whick only had like three good songs on it. Suicide Pact was the same way...three real good songs, and then the rest fell off the planet.

Now this has RAWK...written all the way through it. I normal don't like a ton of de-tuned guitars and drop D...but these guys make it work in new ways...unlike all the boring nu-metal crap.

This album is fun, and I can't put it away. i listen to it every spare second I got. This CD is awesome. Trouble Gum is the best...this is up there, along with Semi-Detached...but all the Cd's have bright, bright spots...but you can't just put the CD in without skipping songs. This one you don't have to skip and songs...