Here's my live review of scarsick to friends as I listened to it:
[1. scarsick]
brocklesner: this song is really boring hahaha
brocklesner: i'm halfway through now
brocklesner: at least there's gonky bass solo over the vocals
brocklesner: hahaha man this main riff is SO lame
brocklesner: the problem with track 1 is it sounds like it's ending at 5:30
brocklesner: and then at 6 it just goes into the first riff for the 300th time
brocklesner: maybe it will go back into the 5:30 section again too
brocklesner: the guitars sound kinda butt too
brocklesner: sounds like it was recorded on an un-upgraded pod xt
brocklesner: first song officially sucked
brocklesner: 2/5
brocklesner: the main riff was like something shadows fall would write on an especially slow day
[2. spitfall]
brocklesner: spitfall is stupid too
brocklesner: the chorus honestly sounds like stupid emo band
brocklesner: the chorus has emo guitars extreme
brocklesner: this is a death march
brocklesner: it has some farty distorted bass 3 minutes in briefly at least
brocklesner: man
brocklesner: it sounded like he actually said vomitorium
brocklesner: on spitfall at like 3:40
brocklesner: the ascending bass at 4:00
brocklesner: that was stupid
brocklesner: hahahahaha
brocklesner: the keyboards sound like they were recorded in 1970 too
brocklesner: i guess that's the point cause so do these guitars now
brocklesner: "parents have bills!"
brocklesner: it won't end
brocklesner: 80% through sounds like the end but then emo chorus has to happen again
brocklesner: ok spitfall was dumb
brocklesner: time for cribcaged
[3. cribcaged]
brocklesner: "sick of homies"
brocklesner: the end of cribcaged
brocklesner: so dumb
brocklesner: hahahahaha
brocklesner: i mean the "fuck [x]" section
brocklesner: that was so dumbbbbbbbbb [notice: song contains a long "dramatic" section where he keeps going FUCK THIS! FUCK THAT! AND FUCK BLAH!]
[4. America]
brocklesner: yeah see america sounds fresh and exciting compared to the last 3
brocklesner: even though i thought it sucked when i heard it before
brocklesner: it still does, just not compared to the rest of this album apparently
brocklesner: i just hate the SOUND of this album
brocklesner: it's so raw and crappy sounding
brocklesner: it's like the damn white stripes recorded it
brocklesner: the "WE WILL BE BACK AFTER THIS SHORT BREAK"
brocklesner: so annoying
[5. disco queen]
brocklesner: well, it lives up to the name at least
brocklesner: the middle actually isn't bad
brocklesner: the disco stuff actually got amusing in the outro
[6. Kingdom of Loss]
brocklesner: "we pay for elevators just so we don't have to climb 3 stairs!"
brocklesner: hahahaha
brocklesner: this is so annoying
brocklesner: "two bouncing breasts on a baywatch beach!"
brocklesner: annoying!
brocklesner: i need to get the lyrics to this
brocklesner: i dunno what he's saying 95% of the time
brocklesner: but random phrases like that stick out
brocklesner: this song is pretty good compared to some of the others too haha
xxxxxxxxxx: he claimed it was the most AGGRESSIVE album yet
xxxxxxxxxx: which doesn't seem to make sense from what you're saying
brocklesner: maybe LYRICALLY
brocklesner: no other way
brocklesner: this song reminds me of jethro fucking tull
brocklesner: occasional medieval melodies and lots of flute doubling the vocals
brocklesner: this is the first one that really sounds like them at all
brocklesner: the SOUND though man i can't get used to it
brocklesner: it's so raw and stupid sounding
brocklesner: the bass especially sounds annoying
brocklesner: it's like a band from yugoslavia covering them with their equipment hocked off soviet russia in the 70s
[7. Mrs. Modern Mother Mary]
brocklesner: no comment really...besides it has transformer vocals for a second at the beginning
brocklesner: not bad, but I doubt I'll listen to it many more times
[8. Idiocracy]
brocklesner: this is like the last one, more weird sounding guitars and general lameness, but light years better than the first few tracks...another big meh
[9. flame to the moth]
brocklesner: SCREAMO VOCALS XTREME!
brocklesner: every once in a while it seems like it might turn good, like at 4:30, but...bleh
brocklesner: once again, much better than the first few, but not saying much
brocklesner: oh god the last track is 10 minutes
[enter rain]
brocklesner: let it rain! x3598053
brocklesner: ENTER RAIN! x3747! EXIT PAIN!
brocklesner: this is pretty stupid.
brocklesner: the keyboards are so lame on this whole album but especially this song
brocklesner: yeah....this is boring. hahaha
brocklesner: the last chorus thing is kind of epic I guess but overall it's pretty much a stir in their sleep compared to beyond the pale or the perfect element
brocklesner: oh nvm it only lasted for like 15 seconds WTF
brocklesner: it doesn't even count as a stir
brocklesner: oh now it's actually the chorus again and now it's not very epic
brocklesner: it sounds like bad wwf entrance music
brocklesner: enter rain is fading out at 8:50, wtf
brocklesner: or it'll be a minute of police sirens, gawd
brocklesner: and now they stopped and it is 33 seconds of silence.
IN CONCLUSION
I'm a huge Pain of Salvation fanboy that was let down by BE in a big way, but this one makes that one look like a friggin masterpiece