I went to thier show last night in Seattle and heard 4 new songs. They're killer. What ever direction they were going in for the Dead Heart album, they kept it going, sticking to thier guns for passion of metal, and yet still growing and maturing in thier field. I think thier getting better at catchy melody lines with out "selling out" so to speak with commercialistic crap. A couple of the new songs even sounded more technical than last albums, ( a thrashy Dream theater meets Polotics of Ecxtasy). Anyway, I know I'm gonna buy the next album. Sometimes I wonder if Loomis sold his soul to the devil........His guitar playing is some what flawless.