To quote a conversation I had with ShadowsfeaR about it on Facebook:
(Cut up into a more readable format for conciseness)
It's soooo boor...... Sorry I fell asleep expressing how boring it was because it bored me so much to say it
not heavy anough for you lol
That's not it, I love melodic music
but not when it's basically Light repeated over and over and over and over and over and over
It's like they took all the melody from Light and all the heavy from The Walk and made an entire CD out of it
then they got a lousy Protest the Hero impersonator to do vocals
still gotta give spencer props for getting better lol
What did he improve on? Shifting his vocals from balls-clenched-in-a-clamp-Underoath-style cleans to trying-way-too-hard cleans?
And he improved his screams/low screams from embarassingly bad to just bad enough to ruin the riffs
whoopty doo
So yeah there's my thoughts on it- it was disappointing and boring as hell for me. The melodies got really stale, the techno bullstuff took up waaaayyyy too much space on the album, the heavy riffs sounded really out of place, the majority of the riffs were boring and Spencer still sucks at vocals.
The instrumental version of the first album is the only reason I love it so much, the melodies were still fresh and the album has definitely had a big impact on groove metal. However, I don't think even an instrumental version of this album could save it for me.
It's not bad by any means, but it's not great either, it's just.... Meh. I'd give it a 4/10.
