Was it that bad that people started leaving?

Good to hear the shows have improved. Maybe they got the hint from the crowd reactions. Eg. people leaving.

I just miss the heavy melodic epicness of a song like The Drapery Falls. There's so much emotion in that song, both in the music and the lyrics. They've been lacking on that front for a while now.

But it's a definite step up from their last four.

I'm not fully through the new one yet, but I'm not enjoying the choppiness of it as much. Not a big fan of being progressive for the sake of being progressive. Their older material felt like it had more of a soul to it.

They were just on tour with a fan-selection playlist. That only contained one song of their Deep Purple era and was full of classics, otherwise. Those shows were pretty amazing.

I saw them two years ago and it was great. Amazing growls, awsome setlist with older songs.