Ive had it for a week or 2 now. My initial reactions were a bit mixed. Some of it was underwhelming cause it is very similar to the other albums. Differnet bits of The Prophet Said sound VERY similar to a few previous tracks. There are NO solos or at all lengthy instrumental parts and none of the tracks are particularly epic (there arent any tracks like When a dead Man Walks from Unleashed M), there isnt a ballad anything like Falling or anything as powerful or fun as My Wings. Most of the tracks are around 4 mins long, have a minimal amount of lyrics and repeat the choruses a lot.
But on the plus side, there are some really catchy choruses (eg Heaven's a Lie) and the album really grows, with bits of tracks getting logged in your head. The most noticeable change is that there is a LOT of electronics (not present before). There are synths and quite a few samples everywhere. My fav part of the album is the tracks Aeon & Tightrope which form sort of one song. Aeon is a very clean and mellow but almost mechanical semi instrumental and then Tightrope suddenly cuts in with a crunchy piece of riffing that is very un-coil like accompanied by random vocal samples and then suddenly a very soft synth part comes in as well. The song ends with a random "self distruct sequence" sample. Angels punishment also has Christina doing almost spoken word over random sortof industrial/goth backing. One thingthat i really liked is that the other singer gets to do a lot more than on the last album and is really good here but Christina is a little samey at times.