the prequel:

so, to summarize: you wish people would shut up or you'll poison them. as one of the people, I say right back at ya

I have every album and like them all for different reasons. can kinda understand the "ignored everything they did well and focused on everything else" comment (even if I don't agree totally). To me, each album brings something different to the table and that works for me. This definitely wasn't what I expected from…

wait till you get to the last baron dude…

seconded. crack the skye is another prime candidate for full play-through. The last baron is a 13 minute epic that finishes the album off on a peak like hearts alive did on leviathon

There are one or two moments of pretty cheesy nu-metal style singing - they threw me off slightly on the first playthrough but the whole album is so amazingly tight they could have taken a 5 minute break to sing barney's christmas carols and it'd still rock harder than anything I've heard in years.

New entry to my shit-list: