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There are a couple of really good tracks on this, but IE has gotten locked into churning out a lot of bland, midtempo rift based songs in the last 3 albums, and this one is no different.
 
There are a couple of really good tracks on this, but IE has gotten locked into churning out a lot of bland, midtempo rift based songs in the last 3 albums, and this one is no different.

Let me guess, Jon Schaffer plays a lot of galloping chugga-chugga riffs? To be honest that's been the deal from the very first IE album, and pretty much every album has a few great tracks while the rest are really boring.
 
There are a couple of really good tracks on this, but IE has gotten locked into churning out a lot of bland, midtempo rift based songs in the last 3 albums, and this one is no different.

Jon Schaffer used all his riffs on Night of The Stormrider. Talk about riffs, christ. To bad he's not cool anymore.
 
I wouldn't mind the style, if there would be real tempo changes along the way, but there generally aren't. One song just winds up sounding like the last song with different lyrics.