It's ok I guess

While ably put together and well produced, the album as a whole feels distinctly lacking in originality, more often than not sounding like your average pop/rock record with a few chamber elements thrown in.

Everything but the outro and the solo sucks, don't have high hopes for the album

Definitely one of the weaker Pain of Salvation albums, it's so incredibly inconsistent it's baffling. The album contains subsequently some of their best songs and some of the most trite and uninteresting garbage they ever released. Take the title track, a nu metal cut which tries so hardly to pander to a trend 20 years too late, Daniel's lethargic and awkward rapping sure as hell don't help it out, and for a band that once made cutting edge concept albums the lyrics are so incredibly shallow. ... read more

Insanely well mixed, tightly performed, and in general just really oddly catchy black metal/hardcore punk fusion thingamajig that stays entertaining for most of its runtime

Never got the hype for this one, sounds like a predictable mish mash of a bunch of riffs that they came up with. Throw in a metal riff, loop it for 2 minutes, follow it by a short folk interlude, rinse and repeat. Considering the average song length on here is 10 minutes, with an arduous 20 minute one, its safe to say it drags. There is little to no variety between each track, minus the last one which hey figure is the best and only "great" song on the album. The mix also sounds ... read more

Radiohead could never

If you are looking for trite and uninspired songwriting, a terrible muddy mix and overblown symphonic section that just don't work with the rest of the grimier and darker tone they were going for, this album might just be for you. Yeah, I cant get down with this whatsoever and as such this is without a doubt my least favorite of theirs, this album is filled to the brink with boring chord progressions, riffs and interludes that add pretty much nothing to the overall experience. I don't know what ... read more

Cut out the boring filler tracks, fix the vocal mix and you have a really really good album. Seriously there's a lot of competent stuff but I can't hear what the man is saying in I Feel the Dark and in other places it sounds dry asf. Also this album made me realize that I need a jazz Opeth album.

Best Track(s): The Devil's Orchard. Haxprocess, Marrow of the Earth
Worst Track: The Lines in my Hand

Oh no

Definitely peak Albert Freeman-core, more of a compilation than an album considering it's for the most part songs from already released EPs/LPs, re recordings and a few new songs. Which while a bit disjointed at times makes for a real good project. There are a few issues with it though they are msotly production related, the big one being the improper and somewhat exaggerated use of the phaser effect. However the writing I'd argue is what shines the most, pretty much the same compliments as the ... read more

One of the best Nu Metal albums of all time.

My ears have been blessed

Great 70s prog worship with a few standout tracks in the front end but should've ended after River, those last two songs are pretty trite and boring to listen to and show a noticeable drop in quality from the first half of the album.

Best Tracks - Moon Above, Sun Below, Eternal Rains will Come, Goblin
Worst Track - Faith in Others

Just solid little folk ep, quite gloomy but also really pretty and beautiful at many occasions. First track is spectacular and while the other two don't come close to matching the quality of the latter, it still gets my seal of approval.

Good job :)

Took a few listens but I concur that this is in fact a ridiculously great ambient release. First track left me speechless, certainly one of the best pieces of music put to tape. Not to say the rest of the album is bad, quite the contrary, something about the incredibly well utilized strings, ethereal synth/keyboard textures and soothing vocals work together to create one of the most beautiful atmospheres I've heard in an album. Extremely cohesive as well, the whole thing sounds very ably ... read more

Can't say I was too impressed by this, especially in comparison to their last one. There is still a charm in a lot of the guitar layering/melodies/riffs, however the mix is incredibly lackluster, it sits in a weird zone where its far too clean for atmospheric black metal yet also sounds oddly hollow and lacking in resolution, the vocals specifically were really hard to make out, and the guitars just sounded flat. That and the wacky song structure makes this a weirder listen. That's not to say ... read more