The production is unnecessarily raw, as if it were recorded on a subterranean dungeon, and needs work -- as do the lyrics, which consist too of tiresome and overwrought melodrama along the lines of "I'll be leaving soon / On the darkest day of winter / Into the emptiness / Of the blackest night."

All this will be the easy part to correct. The hard part, and one that few bands in this subgenre have mastered, is to create music that has an emotional impact, like being hit simultaneously in the throat, solar plexus and balls. If he can take care of this single aspect, the rest will self-correct.