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I'd score this a bit higher, need to listen more before I decide how much higher, however.

I couldn't disagree more than this reviewer. Sonically it's a mix of the best of the old and new sound. Nick HolMes vocals are fantastic especially on single Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us where you can feel a storm of emotions in his performance. This song is clearly a highlight of the album and the fact that it goes unnoticed by the reviewer definitely shows that he doesn't appreciate or understand this bands strengths.

Come off it old son...



I spent half a paragraph talking about that very song, so it hardly "went unnoticed".

This is not a great album, it is a good album. If we go round saying things are great simply because it plays to the same strengths a band has been capitalising on for 20 years, then what is the point?

Ok my bad, i missed the part where you said title track.
I got it right on my second reading.

But I still stand by my assesment that the title track is the highlight of this record and to me the building towards the soaring refrain and Nick Holmes great voice pitch send a wave of emotions to the listener. They are very succesful of doing so on most of the album
but "Faith Divides us - Death Unites" is simply a gem.

Well, like I said in the review, where the title track builds up into an almost "metal power ballad" like climax, it's great. But, the gentle, quiet bits that precede it I don't think are very strong. But, hey, I can see why someone would disagree. Maybe in the future it will click with me and I'll like it as much as you.

The thing about PL is that, I agree with you completely that this is a good fusion between their old and new styles, and it plays to their strengths really well. I do like the album plenty. But, I don't necessarily think it's a really inventive or exciting album- precisely because it plays mainly to the band's strengths that we already know about. Hence, I didn't think it deserved a score in the 80s.

Honestly I was a bit disappointed by this one, but probably only because I was expecting another Icon or Draconian Times. Maybe repeated listening is required.

But For Lies I Sire blows this out of the water.

It was good but not great. +1 to rio.

It's a good album, but it doesn't have that atmosphere their classic albums have. It's actually a bit weird hearing PL without those doomy leads.

I think it is a great album and the best since Draconian Times and maybe the heaviest album since Shades of God. And compared to something like Host or One Second or Believe in Nothing, this album is right in the line with the older stuff.

I take back anything negative I said about this album, it fucking kicks ass, awesome riffs, and the title track is fucking immense. It could actually be their heaviest album, some of the riffs on the second half of the album sound like they could be on a Gojira album.