Editing Metal Circus (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="amg">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r9692}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2Score = A<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|date=January 24, 1984|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv1-84.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|location=New York|accessdate=April 29, 2013}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>Brackett, Nathan. "Hüsker Dü". ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide''. November 2004. pg. 398, cited March 18, 2010</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|9|10}}<ref name="Spin">Weisbard, Eric. "Hüsker Dü". ''Spin Alternative Record Guide''. October 1995. p.187</ref>
}}
In a 1984 ''[[Trouser Press]]'' review, [[John Leland (journalist)|John Leland]] said the band "flirts with heavy metal, but also reveal strains of folk and psychedelia. The metal ventures (noisy lead guitars) expand Hüsker Dü's sound without getting sludgy or bombastic. On the slower tunes,...the guitars drone like a supercharged [[Dream Syndicate]]. On the fast tunes they smoke."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://trouserpress.com/magazine-covers-9/ |title=American Underground |magazine=[[Trouser Press]] |location=New York |volume=10 |issue=12 |date=February 1984 |access-date=December 18, 2021 |last=Leland |first=John |page=32}}</ref> 

[[AllMusic]]'s [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] said that ''Metal Circus'' "is the first indication of Hüsker Dü's greatness," adding that "With these five songs, the band shows more invention, skill, and melody than it did over the course of a full album with ''Everything Falls Apart'', and both Bob Mould and Grant Hart emerge as significant songwriters."<ref name="amg"/>