Sorry for the late reply but it has been one bitch of a week, and I haven't been online at all. Just barely squeezing this one in under the wire.
As soon as I heard the first track on this I knew I would only be listening to the album once. There are some great riffs on it, some very clever guitarwork and some melodies that really work well, but what kills it for me is (anyone?) the vocals. The only place I can take Cookie Monster vocals at all is in funeral doom, and even then I prefer my funeral doom to be more on the instrumental/orchestral side with the odd wounded roar or howl if necessary, but here there are actually two separate types of vocal. Are there two singers, or is it one guy doing both? Don't know. Don't care. The second vocal is a high-pitched, scratchy screech that really to my mind belongs more in black metal, and the two vocals just ruin the music for me. They're not terrible, but it makes it hard for me to concentrate on the music, which is generally really good, though some melodies seem to break off suddenly and go nowhere.
If this was an instrumental album I'd enjoy it a lot more I feel. As it is, the vocals kill it and I can't really give it any more than a
6/10, which I think in my case is being a lot more generous than I had intended to be.