Over-the-top vocals, bass-heavy sound and hmm, poor guitar tone.
Also, wankery. I dislike over-the-topness and technical excess in pretty much everything from rock to metal to ambient music.Music must be well-structured and intuitively(stream of consciousness) flowing. Number of riffs/breakdowns is irrelevant. Structure is everything.
Yea, I'm annoying, am I not?
Some of my friends on RYM agree with the fact that The Chasm are pretty much average.
This is the reason why I also find Elend almost unlistenable. Too much going on at once. They're the Gorguts of neoclassical music.