Chorus and solos are pretty good.
I dont like that Iconoclast style fast riffing, it sounds like a scale exercise rather than good riffing.
The lack of keyboards is the thing that worries me the most. I just don´t get how you as a composer, having as bandmate one of the most underrated keyboardists in prog, just ignore the huge quantity of musical possibilites that are in front of you. Possibilities that were beautifully executed in the first albums of SX. It was part of their sound...
Anyway, when Romeo talked about the album, I got the idea that this will be a diverse album. So I still have some faith in the rest of the songs of "Underworld".
Chorus and solos good? Chorus is passable at most and the solo seems like a compilation from Romeo's solos in Iconoclast and PL.
I've tried to make a meaning out of the whole lyrics and i just can't. Not even in the context of the Divine Comedy. Anyone has a clue? I don't want to think it's just rhyming for the sake of rhyming. If you're gonna write crappy lyrics at least make them mean something.