After a creepy intro, "Leaving Shangri-La" is an instrumental/intro thing that leads into "Mourning Becomes Me". A lot of keyboards and cheesy melodies build up for a while before that Gothenburg type of "speed/new whatever metal" stuff. The chorus hits and the keyboards come out overpowering everything in site. "I Am Legion" has another build up with fancy production fade ins and interplay with the guitars and keyboards. It gets more mid paced on this one. The vocals on here are screaming. Almost bad black metal screams mixed with what's his face from Pantera. Ewwww, BAD! "The Dark Engine" has another creepy intro and then is pretty slow. At least so far the songs are different! (trying to find something positive since it's Friday!) "Bleed" comes next with it's whispering and then Godsmack type radio riff. Then gets all balls out fast. Little by little the singer sounds more and more hardcore screaming. All the sudden a futuristic Korn part comes in and the Godsmack riff comes back. "Stigma Diaboli" comes next and is a weird journey through women moaing with orasms and techno beats, keyboards and then epic movie build ups. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE? "Walk Into Light (Liars Parade)" starts off nice and pretty and could fit on any Cinderella album actually. Then the solo hits over the nice acoustic part. Ahhhhh, so cute and cudley! It then kicks in with a decent riff, goes fast, and the has a horrible riff/chorus. The title track comes at the end and is weird and slow with deep, deep vocal effects until the Queen/Styx singing part comes in. The deep , deep vocal effects come back and the "Mr. Roboto/Bohemian Rhapsody" singing does too. Then there is Fear Factory/Barbara Streisand singing at the end! I mean, just look at those influences with the singing! I'm sure the acoustics are phenominal live! Uhh Candlelight Records put this out and I'm beginging to learn a few things that they seem to sign bands for: 1. They love whispering vocals 2. They love creepy intros 3. They love In Flames fast parts. I'm still confused in a bad way about Bibleblack. The keyboards are still ringing in my ears, ARGHHHHH. Time to get Corpsemolesters opinion on some of these albums coming up next!
Review By: Mike Abominator 3/10
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