I never said you can't like AYDY or BD or not like HCD, I do like all albums more or less equally (top beeing HCD). But I don't see what HCD songs have to envy from the songs on the other albums, I think they're all really strong, there's no "weak" song like e.g. DWEDFN.
About mastering, HCD's the clearest sounding, the one with more consistent drum sound and the one with better chosen keys presence overall, plus the best guitar tone as far as I'm concerned: crystal clear but quite powerful at the same time. Second comes AYDY, third HB, fourth FTR, fifth BD and last SW. AYDY lacks a bit of guitars and some synths but is really decent overall; HB is awesome but the tones themselves could have been a bit better; FTR is quite good overall, but the low ends aren't too well defined and I seriously don't know what they were thinking with ETID mix; BD is really really powerful and they did do a great effort getting those maybe too distorted guitars for Bodom to sound clean as fuck in the final mix, plus the bass sounds awesome and keys are back in shape, only bad side is drum sound, I don't really like it; SW well, it was the debut album, and it's ok as that, but doesn't stand to comparison to the others soundwise.
Of course it depends on what you want from a mix so once again is personal, but with people always going "keys need mroe presence", "guitar tone is too thin/too distorted", "sounds too heavy", etc. I thought HCD would please everybody as it's consistent, guitars strike like razorblades but still really clear in the mix and keys are all over the place.
