Early opinion: it's better than Crisis but unless they stop "moving in the right direction" they are never going to top their first two albums, in my opinion. It's not album of the year material and I'm pretty sure that I'm going to hear better music from Maylene and He Is Legend on June 23. That said, it's still a good album and definitely an improvement from Crisis. But the raw emotion is gone and I think that they've decided they just want to make heavy, polished rock music now. Good for their popularity, bad for my love of their early music.
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