Just listened to it again, and honestly...it’s still one of my least favorites. I have it at 13/14 in my ranking. It doesn’t have one song on it where I’m like “oh I love this song”. ITPOE is good...but not something I jump out of my seat for. Forsaken is good, but imo Paralyzed kinda does the same thing but better. Constant Motion is a cool song, but not anything outstanding or anything. I love thrash more than prog tbh, but I don’t really like DT doing pure thrash, they sound their best when they’re doing stuff like BITS and Voices. Heavy stuff pouring with emotion. TDEN is cool and unique but again...not anything amazing to me. TMOLS is probably my favorite song on the album, but tbh compared to other 12+ minute epics by them, it doesn’t really stand out. I’ll listen to something like Endless Sacrifice over it any day. The other two songs on the album...meh. POW is very average and Repentance is boring.
I think to me, this album just lacks emotion. TMOLS is the only song that really conveys that classic DT emotional feel, but even then it’s not THAT emotional, it’s just more emotional than the other songs on the album. This is a very flat sounding album to me in a lot of ways, it almost feels like a different band to me. Even the other heavy albums like TOT and BCASL, they have a lot of emotion on those albums, they don’t sound flat. Idk, SC just doesn’t do it for me. If the band sounded like this on every album, this wouldn’t be one of my favorite bands, not by a long shot.
But since I just listened to it again and it’s still fresh in my mind, I was wondering what all you guys think of it.