Distortion-soaked grooves and lyrics touching on faith and loneliness are deep in the weelhouse for Pinnick's devotees, but for a freshly-minted supergroup KXMs fondness on vamped riffs to get to that 4:30 mark is frustrating. Maybe dUg has a bet with Mike Portnoy to see who can form the more forgettable hard rock trio? C+
"Terminal" and the title track are interesting, but Moore and Matheos never achieve a good enough fusion to make the rest of this really come alive -- the heavy songs sound stilted and the soft ones feel stretched. Bonus points for blatantly reusing keyboard patches during Mikael Akerfeldt's song (the most overlong piece in OSI's discography) and for assisting Gavin Harrison in recording his most forgettable drum parts. C
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