Ok, so.
I listened to this again, and the middle basically kills the album for me. Kiss of Fire, Charon and In My Darkest Hour are all hugely forgettable. The rest ranges from good to amazing, but those three songs just draaaaaaaag.
Better than Iconoclast and the s/t, and that's about it though. Still a good album, but nowhere near the brilliance of the run that was TDG - PL.
EDIT: To end on a positive note, Underworld and Swansong are fucking killer.