Tales From the Thousand Lakes is boring, trite shit...the vocals are cringe-inducing as are the keyboards. There are a few cool riffs scattered about the album, but they are few and far between the shitty parts.
yeah, that's your opinion, but here comes a fact: You never heard of any band that mixed up death metal, doom, psychedelic rock and ambient so well. you can call that "shitty". I think you must acquire more vocabulary.