My only complaint about their sound, is they drowned out the bass, but hard to say it sounded bad, because it definitely didn't. It's definitely a sound of it's time without a doubt. That and the pretty good riffs anyways, even in comparison to the more technical and complicated stuff I like. All this could have been not so great engineering too. That's basically a stab in the dark since I'm not an engineer. Deron is obviously no Greg Howe, or Michael Romeo, and was able to make his own sound, and make it sound pretty pleasing. Minus my own little personal complaint.