I actually re-listened to the album again recently. I'll break it down song by song.
1. ITPOE pt. 1 - Good song, very proggy, but feels incomplete (obviously). Dunno if it should have been broken in half the way it was.
2. Forsaken - Just boring. Very cool intro and music during the verse but the vocals are just horribly boring, as are the drums. Song just does nothing for me, feels very forced and uninspired.
3. Constant Motion - Love it, minus the chorus. The chorus just loses all of the momentum and energy. I am one of the few that likes the verses and such, despite the hetfieldness of it all. But the chorus really drags it down, as does the annoyingly dragged out ending.
4. TDEK - Annoyingly boring. The main riff is cool, but everything else is just lame and horribly uninteresting. Wanted to skip it so bad, eventually did during the ending.
5. Repentence is it? Is that track 5? Anyway, my favorite song off the album. It's perfect, no complaints.
6. PoW - Pointless, fun, but pointless. Actually the coolest parts are those little cable tricks JP did. You know, when he plugged it in and got that high noise? Sad.
7. TMOLS - I love the music, the vocals are........ok. But this song needs a lot of work. If they worked on this song for a while and really hammered it out it would be amazing. JR really shines on this, minus the annoying instrumental section......which does have a cool guitar solo. Also ending drags on wayyyyy too long.
8. ITPOE pt. 2 - Boring. Intro is cool, including the first verse, but the chorus is by far the worst thing they have done in a VERY long time. The heavy part was really cool at first, but it gets stale quickly. Also, horrible instrumental section and worse ending.
Better?
Also, the main problem I have with ITPOE is that they really do feel like two different songs. Obviously there are the connections that are cool, but they feel very different and the second half is no where near as good as the first half. If they had made it one track and made it consistent with the first half, it would have been better.