I loved The Sickness. To this day, I can't stop listening to it. But just don't understand how they could go from The Sickness to Believe and Ten Thousand Fists. They were just so gawd awful and generic--And the songs didn't have nearly as much energy as in the first album.
Is it really a matter of not trying or did they just run out of good tunes? I can't figure it out. But beyond that, one of the problems is that they've gone from metal to emo to preachy.
