Originally Posted by Goofle

I didn't mean "down" as in he made it sadder, I meant the vocals had a negative impact on the record.

There is a bit of variety but it's still gloomy boring gothic rock. But it is a pretty weak criticism on my end I guess. Moaning that an album in a genre stays in the genre. I think disliking it made me say that, so I take it back. It's sonically varied but the tone remained relatively similar at least to me.