I still haven't fully expressed my disappointment on the god-awful Relentless Reckless Forever. It's so wrong I sacrificed time worth of over a thousand posts discussing that album during its birth process and it ended up being a pile of thrashy emotionless pseudo-metal with very little enjoyable material for the listener, songs that are comprised of parts that don't gel together and feel purposeless, solos that are there just cos there needs to be some shredding, and vocals that have long ago forgotten the purpose of rough vocals is to express anger and not to be there cos Alexi doesn't want to sing clear. That album is like a COB parody walking on the face of the planet.
I really fucking hope the band are currently redeeming themselves and putting together material that's full of memorable riffs and epic melodies and is done like this genre is supposed to be done, cos it's very sad to have witnessed the withering of such metal craft. I know Alexi can do better, maybe he's just been too stressed or busy doing the last albums.