Mob Rules - Ethnolution A.D. (2006)

Mob Rules' fifth album, thanks to the liner notes for the songs on the first half, makes the song topics quite clear, as they sing about religious wars ("Unholy War"), the Klu Klux Klan ("Ashes To Ashes"), division in Germany ("Fuel To The Fire") and suicide bombers ("The Last Farewell").  For some reason, the songs on the second half do not have similar notes.
However, the album as a whole is not all that exciting musically anyway.  Mob Rules has always been reasonable, without doing anything outstanding, but Ethnolution A.D. is not even that good, with rather uninspired writing. What's more, Klaus Dirks' vocals, which have always been easily recognisable with their slightly warbly tone, get rather annoying on the latter part of the record with such songs as "New Horizons". Even the final, quite nice ballad "Better Morning" can't save things.
The best song here is certainly "Day And A Lifetime", but the album as a whole is really not all that special, no matter how notable some of the topics might be.

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