basically the reason i said they are pompous is because they have the balls or 'pomposity' to bring all those unnecessary instruments into the albums (yet its still utterly bland) and hell, even onto the stage with them in a desperate attempt to set them apart from other modern bm bands, in an irritatingly grand way(though my comment is kind of irrelevant as most bm is pretentious as hell). i mean, christ, with all those instruments you would think that they would at least make slightly more interesting and engaging sounds.fact is wittr pummel their asses in everyway in terms of modern bm