It's okay and there's lots of potential on display, but I am not a fan. For starters the bulk of this has a lot more doom DNA than I expected, and well I am not a fan of doom. I can see the vox being divisive, but I more often like them than not. The truly cool stuff here is the occasional proggy/atmospheric elements that remind of bands that would come about much later, such as bits of acoustic guitar and prog bass on 4, more guitar stuff on 5, the really cool out-of time riffy piano (?) additions at 4:45ish on 6, and the interlude 9. Some of the (scarce) dmey/ heavy riffy sections are also quite cool, like min 4 on 1, the start of 2 and 5, the end of 7. But almost every track has a bulk of doom that is ok with occasional good riff at best, and borderline amateur/cringe eg. on 1 and 3, and by 4 I was already getting out of the album a bit, although the proggy elements I mentioned did bring me back to it. So all in all not a keeper, and not even a track that I'd keep on the whole either. 3.3
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