Monotheist just isn't my type of music really. Can't complain much on objective grounds, I just don't like it.

And the sad thing about Arch Enemy is that they've even pretty much come out and said bringing Angela on board was a deliberate gimmick. Very sad.

I only have that one Lake of Tears album. I bought it on impulse having thought I'd read a good review somewhere, so maybe I need to hear a different album. As with the Celtic Frost, perhaps more so, this album was really just not my thing, as opposed to me thinking it was bad or anything.