The music sounds really good - I'm especially on board witht he sound of the drumkit and the not-so-common-for-metal focus on the bass guitar. While I also like the basic idea of each and every track on here, they also tend to meander around a bit too much. Essentially, the songwriting reminds me of a lot of tepid goth metal from the 90's (probably my least favorite metal movement).
Worst of all though, are the uniformly horrid vocal performances. The out of tune warbling of this dude sounds amateur in the extreme and those black metal croaks are hilarious in all the wrong ways. There's also a woman on vocal somewhere late on the album, and she's terrible as well.
For me, this album is some good musicians in search of memorable material and a vocalist that doesn't suck donkey balls. That guy really does sink this ship for me, subtracting at least 4 points.
3/10
Sorry Mondo, but I can't stand the guy
