It will take you approximately 35 seconds to realize why this album deserved such a low score, and it will then take you approximately 6 minutes to realize why you will never listen to this again.
This was to be a reworked version of the s.u.i.z.i.d. album, which was fine to begin with, and yet aside from the vocals, nothing is different at all. The music sounds very poorly edited in some brief parts, but otherwise it sounds the same except albeit flat and emptier than the original. The atmosphere is somehow gone, though the actual recording is fine. I wouldn't even say the music is bad at all, there just isn't anything new to report of it that hasn't already said about the original.
But the number one issue here is the vocals.
Kvarforth. WHY.
Kvarforth is perfect for Shining, because the music is written in accordance to the juxtaposing of his voice and the flow of Swedish lyrics, so he sounds natural and appropriate during his own songs. Bethlehem is a German band and all of these songs were originally in German, but I suppose to accommodate his inability to speak German, Kvarforth sings the songs in English, which though at times may retain the same meaning, the songs do not match the music in the same way as they did before, and so as a result, the performances sound awkward and unsure of themselves at times. There are several times when there are these vocal sounds that just appear to try to fill space; sometimes it is a series of faint quivering whispers or just inexplicable sounds, but it doesn't sound dark and evil in any way, it just sounds retarded, out of place, and 100% forced.