[SteveR]

Minutes To Midnight is a reference to the Doomsday Clock which calculates humanties closeness to total anihilation. The album is a bit different than the others, but they wanted to do what they wanted to do and not get stuck with one certain sound. Politics in music is nothing new either. You can go back and look at people like Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel, etc, even Metallica, Disturbed, Tool, and a lot of the metal bands. Some people like it, some dont, its all personal opinion.