I understand what you're saying Tio. My feeling with the album is a bittersweet one. i LOVE the first four songs of the album, although I feel that the middle section of "Cold Call" gets a little repetitive and could use a scorching guitar solo, and "Enemy Prayer" could use some of Moore's spoken-word samples peppered throughout just for flavor. But other than that, the first four songs are really terrific and rank up there with any OSI song.
The next three songs are good as well, but I feel like they each are too short. "Wind Won't Hollow" and "Big Chief II" are incredibly awesome, but I just feel like they end quickly and I'm left wanting more, particularly with "BC II." That song is so unique and should have been extended more longer than 3 minutes. The current stanzas should just be verses and they should've have created a chorus, and then bam the song is twice as long. Then it would've been a real rollercoaster ride of craziness.
"Invisible Men" is just incredible. I can't complain about that one.
The lyrics are a bit more gibberish-like than past albums. With past albums, the lyrics were weird, but I felt like I could decipher some meanings and put the pieces together. These lyrics just seem to have no real meaning at all, lol. But it's still early, so maybe the lyric meanings will come to me, haha.