I can certainly appreciate bands wanting their social media pages to be nothing but positivity, but it's then not the wisest idea for the band to boast on those same pages that the praise for the album is "unanimous". That becomes a redundant claim when you're deleting all remotely 'negative' reviews.
On the album, I'll paraphrase what I wrote in my review - I do think there is potential for this band if they decide to stick around. To me this debut album is mostly dreck, but when they slow down they are ok, and even hint at beauty. Despite my now thinking he's a tedious try-hard MP lapdog, Derek is actually the star of this album for me, he has a superb (and frustratingly brief) keyboard solo in God of the Sun, and all the decent parts of the instrumental track are down to him. He's as close as this outfit gets to an actual song-writer (the main problem for this project is that it does not have a John Petrucci or a Neal Morse, it only has virtuoso technicians, which is unimpressive in this age of children covering guys like Steve Vai and Buddy Rich on YouTube). Too often whenever these songs threaten to become natural music with tension and dynamics, a tiresome wankfest gets dumped in the middle of it all, like a parodic stereotype of 'prog metal'. God of the Sun is probably the best song here (Labyrinth is decent too), and as others have said, it's the one that Derek actually spent a lot of time on.
If they are successful enough to make them want to do a 2nd album, then there's enough in this album to convince me they can produce something decent. Derek is without doubt a talented player, and has some good musical ideas. MP doesn't push his boundaries anymore, but I don't mind that, he does what he does very well, and I still love him as a drummer. If nothing else, he always gets a lovely, crisp drum sound, to my ears. The singer is ok for this kind of thing. Maybe now they've got the yapping DT inferiority complex out of their system they can settle down and be themselves, and write music which breathes and sounds like it was composed rather than thrown together to tick a bunch of boxes.
Tracks I'll listen to again are God of the Sun, Coming Home, and Labyrinth. The rest is ersatz shit. My rating was 3/10.