✦✦✧✧ This album’s all over the place, which is saying a lot for typically-already-batshit A7X. It’s a concept album. It’s nu metal. It’s pop. It shreds (but usually for no discernible reason). I dunno: it reminds me a lot of Destrage and Faith No More, only not in ways I actually enjoy?

★☆☆☆ What starts off as a fun game of “guess whom A7X are paying homage to now” quickly devolves into wholesale theft (with “This Means War” being the most egregious lifting I’ve heard in years). This album’s listenability is entirely based on a parlor trick, and not a particularly clever one at that.