Kicked off by the powerful crescendo that is ".Execute" and ending with the blistering track "All Hope Is Gone" the album is a cohesive statement about the world today and truly cements the band as one of Rocks heavyweights.
An intensely beautiful, intensely difficult record. It is reclusive, cryptic, late-night paranoia music, so unsettling and loud that at times it's almost too intimate, even in the absence of any real identifying details.