Before anyone randomly attacks me for thinking they are overrated, let me explain my reasoning:
1. Inconsistency. Their songs have no relation to one another. They try at least 8 different styles of music in Choronzon, with the beginning of Son Of The Morning being repulsively bad.
2. The vocals. What the fucking hell. I don't understand how anyone can think Mendonca has good vocals, besides maybe the completely and utterly out of place Severe Torture-esque death vocals. The "black" vocals are annoying and grating, and his clean vocals blow.
3. The guitar tone. Listen to the beginning of Becoming The Adversary. That sounds terrible. It's like a really low din in the back of the song. I realize that this tone isn't always there, but when it is, it's PAINFUL to listen to.
4. The goofy production. Self-explanatory. The production is too...wrong, with the drumming (which is probably one of the best aspects of the album--Gray's a good skinsman most of the time) being far too back most of the time. The guitar tone, while blatantly muddied for black metal purposes, is practically insubstantial and worthless.
5. The pretentiousness. I don't like the lyrics at all. They sound like a joke unto themselves, and, although I am quite aware that they are "truly Satanic," that doesn't change the fact that they're goofy most of the time. I can excuse lyrics, but whose fucking idea was it to have intros to practically every track on the album?
