For those interested, as of the time of this review the album can be downloaded for free from the band's home page. Timeline: The Beginning and End of Everything is a mixture of rather melodic black metal and some rather thrashy and at times a bit technical death metal. I don't like the black metal vocals here and this does effect my rating a bit. What I do like is some of the thrashier and somewhat technical death metal parts especially when the band adds some atmosphere to the songs. Unfortunately, most of the more black metal sections really don't grab me. On some songs after you have heard the first 30-40 seconds nothing really develops beyond that and we are left bored. There are still some nice portions and if I liked the vocals more I would probably give this a 3.5 star rating.