"These good-natured surf-thrashers are fairly succint for speed metal, and almost huggable when they ditch their ugly-kid-joke screeching for ballads..." - Rating: B, 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Ugly Kid Joe's elevation into a full-time West Coast dude metal outfit, in the light of grunge's stranglehold, is a risk but MENACE TO SOCIETY presses all the right attitude buttons and has the throbbing muscle to back it up."