I'm just some average yokel off the street and even my untrained ears can tell you, from hearing this album, Damon Edge was anything but a professional musician. If there was anyone in this world who needed a musician to convert his ideas to an acceptable aural format, it was this guy. His first foray without Helios Creed sounds like a ill-programmed robot making what it thinks is progressive music but often comes out sounding like a drunken old crooner trapped in a bad video game. Instead of the cool evil hisses and growls of earlier works, now Damon does his vocals in a drugged/bored monotone drivel style which is beyond washed-up. The sad thing? This was good compared to what was waiting down the road.