I didn't realise the album was released in September. God I was slow on picking this up hahahaha.
This album has obviously had a lot more invested in it than previous efforts, with some incredible songwriting and pace changes, but I just can't really get into this like the others. The modern death metal, almost random, riffing I find hard to follow, and for one of the greatest vocalists of all time, it may as well be any gutteral voice there. Mikael's worst performance, clearly. OK, this is a great technical death metal album, but it leaves me cold. What do I hold onto, where is my reference point? What does it MEAN?
A good album, but not what I expected or hoped for. It's a bit too fancy pants.