| Straight Ahead | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Pennywise |
| Cover: | Pennywise - Straight Ahead cover.jpg |
| Released: | June 1, 1999 |
| Recorded: | 1998–1999 at Stall #2 Redondo Beach, California |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 48:20 |
| Label: | Epitaph[1] |
| Producer: | Darian Rundall, Pennywise |
| Prev Title: | Full Circle |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Live @ the Key Club |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
Straight Ahead is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band Pennywise, released in 1999 via Epitaph Records.[2] [3] It contains the single "Alien."[4]
Straight Ahead was released in June 1999. In October 2000, the band played at Cypress Hill's Smoke Out Festival.[5] The band toured Australia in November 2000; the dates were rescheduled from July 2000 as Lindberg's mother was suffering from cancer.[6] [7] They were supported by Frenzal Rhomb and Game Over.[8]
Ox-Fanzine called the album "fast, direct, accomplished and powerful."[9] CMJ New Music Report wrote that "the inescapable anger highlights, rather than buries, the metallic power riffs and inspired drumming."[10] Phoenix New Times wrote that Straight Ahead is "rooted in West Coast surfer-skater party-punk, with rough-and-tumble melodies on top of briny torrents of guitars."[3]