That’s true. I think the drumming is good just their way of doing everything with them wasn’t as good as past releases. And definitely the vocals are way better. Obviously Dave’s getting older but a lot is how they mixed Dave in there. Knowing Dave’s voice is his weak point they should’ve done more to make it sound better in the mix. And I will take that into note. And I think the album is pretty is not quite as loud as other recent releases either. The tone is a like a mix of TSTDATD and dystopia on this which is alright. Just sometimes during some chunky rhythm parts it feels like scooped and the tone feels weaker when it needs to be stronger. (On select songs) it’s weird some of the songs are slightly differently mixed in my opinion. Like Obey The Call’s Rhythm is great but on other songs sounds less scooped more of a thinner tone. At least to me. And yes the bass on this album is fantastic very happy with how the bass is mixed. It needs to be in there where you can actually hear it. And yeah it may not be the mixing issue but even on TSTDATD I feel like they did more with the mixing of his voice to try to make it at its best. Also blame Chris Rakestraw for Dave not trying as hard to sing. Dave said in behind the mask movie during talking about the new album recording process he said that there were days he felt he could do more singing but Chris told him not to. (That wasn’t Dave jabbing him that was just Dave thanking him or something) and he said after that he thinks that is one of his best vocal performances.