I thought Puppet Master was one of his better records of the last 15 years or so when it came out a few years ago. After hearing it only a couple of times, I'm not sure if I feel quite the same about this one. But the typical KD sound is kinda hard to mess up, IMO, and a bad release by him is still pretty damn good by the standards of most bands. It's got the same excellent production of the last album though.