This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Call this album the return of the prodigal son, as Vince Neil was restored to the mic stand here following a one-album hiatus. GENERATION SWINE brought Motley Crue into the '90s by recasting their sound in the post-industrial mold of Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. The Crue tried to revamp their image and sound by employing Skinny Puppy's Dave Ogilvie to mix half of the album and swapping their spandex and leather for black vinyl and nail polish. Swirling textures underpin everything from White Zombie-like crunch ("Let Us Prey") to an almost Primus-like title track. A reworking of a Crue favorite ("Shout At The Devil '97") features the band's trademark biting guitars, but the party boys of the '80s are all grown up now, as Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx write and sing about their wives and children in the sugary "Brandon" and the glammy "Rocketship."

Entertainment Weekly (6/27-7/4/97, p.124) - "...they celebrate the return of frontman Vince Neil with several fine displays of highly burnished metal trumpeting the pleasure of drugs and nasty sex..." - Rating: B

Musician (8/97, p.90) - "...the good news is that they've undermixed the vocals and overmixed Mars and Sixx, who have a fair number of good ideas....Influences range from psychedelic era Beatles to Motorhead."