Rating: 9 Favorite Song: Death Blooms
Pros: Excellent riffs, bassist offers unique bass slap to metal, great double bass drums, lead singer offers great vocals; he sings and offers blood curtling growls.
Cons: Interlude songs scattered throughout album are sometimes annoying.
Rating: 10 Favorite Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Pros: All songs can be favorites, singer/guitarist mixes in great vocals with great riffs and solos, lyrics and music are well orchestrated.
Cons: None
Rating: 8 Favorite Song: Here to Stay
Pros: Heavy and melodic riffs, songs are more complicated, lyrics more complicated, extra remix song at end of album is good ear candy, some of the best of their work.
Cons: Singer often tries to sing softly, but ends up sounding like a girl.
Rating: 8 Favorite Song: Edgecrusher
Pros: Great and heavy riffs, singer can bust out good vocals and extreme screams, drummer is extremely good at double bass drumming, their best album to date.
Cons: Sometimes vocals don�t go with music; some songs seem off-note.
Rating: 9 Favorite Song: Crawling
Pros: All songs can be favorites, lead singer gives excellent vocals, both singers have different styles, but blend , guitar riffs are simple, but effective, all elements mix well together.
Cons: Too damn short; needs to be longer.
Rating: 8 Favorite Song: Left Behind
Pros: Everything is heavy, no rap, singer actually sings more instead of constant screaming, brutal lyrics, complicated music, and great for angry moods.
Cons: Sometimes screams all the time on every song.
Rating: 9 Favorite Song: The Beautiful People
Pros: Very dark, atmospheric, first of a trilogy of albums representing a musical story, great riffs, and musical score is well orchestrated.
Cons: Some lyrics are questionable and aren't strong, wasted time after track 16, worthless extra track.
Rating: 10 Favorite Song: Target Audience
Pros: Great production, riffs and acoustics blend, a dark mix between Anti-Christ Superstar and Mechanical Animals, dark and brilliant lyrics.
Cons: None