After two heavily rock-influenced albums (Stoned Raiders and Temple of Boom), the Cypress Hill gang returns to its trademark stoner funk on Till Death Do Us Part.

The album kicks off with "Another Body Drops", an off-the-bat adrenaline rush riddled with the melodic sounds of gunshots and, appropriately enough, bodies dropping. This sets the tone for the rest of the album: a release that's all about hard-hitting, unadulterated, in-your-face rap. You won't find R. Kelly dropping in for a duet here.

In "Latin Thugs", B-Real and Sen Dog team up with Puerto Rican street poet Tego Calderon for an upbeat number delivered almost entirely in Spanish. Notable California-born producer the Alchemist laces the upbeat track with impressive Spanish horns and perfectly placed cymbals.

No Cypress Hill album would be complete without mention of marijuana, the first nod here being "Ganja Bus", a reggae-influenced track paying homage to "this skunky and the greeny". The instrumental is simple, with claps and the hypnotizing chants of Damian Marley, son of terminally fried reggae icon Bob Marley. The cheeba is also honoured on "Bong Hit", an interlude of heavy bass and psychedelic beeps that sound like they came off an old-school Atari. Surely intended for nothing more than tripping potheads the fuck out, the song's simplistic madness will leave stoners giggling like schoolgirls.

The varied musical influences on Till Death Do Us Part--reggae, rock, and rap collide for a sound that's uniquely Cypress Hill--make listeners feel like they're in the Caribbean, the '70s, and hell all at once.