*shrug* I like it when bands try new things, and I'm okay with "mainstreaming" as long as they don't go so far as to sound like they're trying to become something they're completely not. For example, one of the songs on the new Backstreet Boys CD sounds like it belongs on a Chris Brown album rather than to them. Atreyu's sound hasn't strayed too far from their earlier stuff, so I'm okay with it. Any farther, and there might be a problem, at least for me.

One song on Suicide Notes had lyrics that I loved. "At least I know I'm A Sinner" ranks as one of my favorite sets of lyrics because the message behind it is something that I really endorse. The rest of them were sort of blah once I actually knew what they were.