Artist: Lords Of The New Church
Album: The Method To Our Madness
Genre: Pop Rock
Release Date: 1984/2016
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 43:36
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 921 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Lords Of The New Church – Method To My Madness (03:18)
1-2. Lords Of The New Church – I Never Believed (03:40)
1-3. Lords Of The New Church – Pretty Baby Scream (05:03)
1-4. Lords Of The New Church – S.F. & T. (03:35)
1-5. Lords Of The New Church – When The Blood Runs Cold (03:55)
1-6. Lords Of The New Church – Fresh Flesh (03:35)
1-7. Lords Of The New Church – Murder Style (04:11)
1-8. Lords Of The New Church – The Seducer (04:13)
1-9. Lords Of The New Church – Kiss Of Death (03:36)
1-10. Lords Of The New Church – Do What Thou Wilt (04:13)
1-11. Lords Of The New Church – My Kingdom Come (04:12)

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Although it was the Lords’ third release, The Method to Our Madness sounds more like a debut. The band is bursting with energy and the production, by Chris Tsangerides, is much rawer than that on The Lords of the New Church or Is Nothing Sacred? The opening salvo is “Method to My Madness,” a four-on-the-floor rocker with a vocal contribution by I.R.S. Records impresario Miles Copeland, who admonishes Stiv Bator, “Now don’t go tellin’ secrets/This record’s gotta sell!” After that, the aggression level stays pretty high, dipping only for a couple of ballads, “I Never Believed” and “When Blood Runs Cold” (the latter of which uses a string section; Stiv Bator and strings — who whould have thought it?) The Method to Our Madness contains some of the Lords’ best non-hits: the sinister, sexy, bass-driven “Murder Style” and “The Seducer,” the tale of a figure who might be a messiah, might be an antichrist, probably not too far off from how Bator saw himself. The closer, “My Kingdom Come,” sounds like an ending, and it was; the Lords would never again record at full power before their split in 1988. ~~ AllMusic Review by Bill Cassel