The thing that really bums me out is the first few albums have absolutely putrid guitar tone, but the songwriting and especially the vocals are awesome. Starting with, to some extent, "The Odyssey" and then moving on to "Paradise Lost" and especially "Iconoclast" they improved the overall sound/tone of the guitar in a big way, but the vocals sound like someone gargling with sand and glass and the songs (especially the riffs) sound like stuff that tons of generic metal bands are doing. I mean, don't get me wrong - Romeo is a monster player. And SOME of the riffs are killer, but it's all chug, all the time and after about three or four tracks it just starts to sound like one big long song all mashed together.