Fires in Heaven is a definite improvement over Salem's wildly messy debut, but it trades out the fatal flaws of their past work with some new, less dramatic, but still aggravating issues that bring down the record.
Right off the bat, the mixing here is soooooo much better than on King's Night. Compared to the nausea-inducing mixing of that record, each track on Fires in Heaven is at the very least listenable and nausea-free. It can often sound blown-out and murky, but I think that's more of an ...
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