It's ok..Amateurish for most part. Like a 3 or 4 out of 10. I'm not going to be as cruel, super quick to dissmiss, and flame as some in here are.
The good: In the DF cover, I like his highest range singing, but the rest is eh. I like the second half of the Disciples of Babylon song, the slow part.
The death vocals on Nocturne werent that bad. I like the mixing best on that song, and the drums seemed to be much better on it. Actually that song isn't so bad. I think it's the best thought out song they have on there. I like the keyboards, guitar, and solos on it as well. Now that the songs over I actually kinda like this song. If you hear this song first, and don't get hyped first, I think it gives the rest a different impression. I heard Fimbulvetr first..yucky yucky! I agree that the keyboards were good. The keyboardist does a good job.
The bad: The black metal vocals I thought were horrible on Fimbulveter, and background death vocals on it were really annoying on the one hand, yet somehow so bad they were kinda funny..I actually started laughing out loud at one point.
The production quality and sound levels/mixing are very distracting, and poor on most of the songs. The drummer needs some more practice, cause he's off somehow and the bass petal sounds like crap for most part. Heresy Incardine is kinda craptacular. The one redeemable thing I heard on it was the keyboards..the guitar on it was..not great. You kinda have that same sound and mixing from the Fimblelina song or whatever its called. Wow, wait...no.. Heresy Incardine actually pretty horrible.
When I listen to Dream Theater, as I LOVE their early stuff (IMAGES and then the rest up to Seasons), later on I find I like sections of songs, not so much everything in the songs, though there are alot of great songs nevertheless...with the songs from these guys, there are LITTLE parts I like..little little parts..much of it I don't care for. Nocturne is the best song they have on there. I think it would do a listener better to list the songs as part of a DEMO perhaps to set expectations more fairly. My expectations were already low from reading the thread/response so that's my take on it.