I love it! Really dig all the sounds and instruments on it. Some cool symphonic bits here and there and you can't go wrong with Howerdel's tones.
First two APC albums were killer but they lost me on eMOTIVe, that album bored the shit out of me. Went to see them a few years back, it was after eMOTIVe and after the touring cycle for it, so I figured it'd be a normal APC show and it turned out to be the most boring, slow tempo show I've ever seen.
Big Tool fan and caught them this past Spring up in Boston. Band was great but because it was in Harvard, the volume sucked. We were having living room level conversations during the show, not the right way to experience Tool.
Big Puscifer fan, as well. Lot of cool guitar tones on those albums and I dig the electronic stuff. Killer live show, as well.
Really, Maynard can do whatever he wants right now. As he's explained it, the band isn't done writing the music yet, so he's got nothing but time until they hand him the finished music to do something with. I'm just hoping when they tour the album, Maynard puts some balls into it and doesn't really on singing with distortion on his voice the entire fucking set like he's been doing with Tool for a while now.