This is actually a surreal kind of bad album, like St. Anger but even more incompetent and somehow even worse sounding. I presume they tried to modernize their style here, but it's so messy and badly produced it sounds like two or three bands playing different songs simultaneously. This time there's no excuses, since even if they didn't have a clue on how to make modern metal they could've just asked anybody for some help because around this time heavy metal was more or less mainstream and every kid next door knew the genre inside and out.

Listening this album is almost as big of pain as Lulu, I'm not kidding. Core Values is almost hilarious in its badness.