Man, I love what Peter's done for metal, and Hypocrisy have been one of my favourite bands of the last three years, but this thing is just a braying, screeching source of annoyance. Dumb album cover, rehash of a title, hackneyed song titles, dumb colours, and inside? Pedestrian death (see Hate Eternal, Deicide and Pete's own, now disowned Lock Up) with a production sound that Pete's got to put to rest, this muddy mix of all frequencies that says nothing, no bold triumph of treble or bass, just all bases covered. But hey, I'm more upset at Tagtgren not knowing the perils of going old school, forgetting that death had a period where much was slagged as rehash, Hypocrisy gleefully picking the bones of unremarkable styles here, halfheartedly botch-stitching them to their extreme In Flames idea. But OK, maybe there are camps that think Hypocrisy got too gothic, Maiden-ish, rock 'n' roll, and that such a nasty record was a cred move. Well, good for you, you sops. That tired riff in 'Blinded' is for you, as is 'Unleash The Beast' which just churns self-evident and dull. Man, again it's all down to a deliberate strategy away from where I'd like the band to be, but Pete's unexpressive death monotone is another source of rash here, sandpapering every song in identical fashion, even those with a couple of good riffs in 'em. And there are still a few of those here ('Fire In The Sky'), recalling the last couple of bulked-up sorrowbuckets, but even so, the band's drum sound sucks, so do the solos, the mechanical blastbeats, and Pete's vocal, well, what-friggin'-ever.