The Courts Of Chaos may perhaps be the best album the band put out since The Deluge when looking at pure songwriting, but the sheer amount of cheap digital effects (those programmed drums really are unforgivable) means I have no choice but to mark this down a bit. Still, if you thought Manilla Road were getting weird at this point, best to brace yourself for the next one. The band collapsed not long after this album, and Mark Shelton put together a new band called The Circus Maximus, with a new vocalist sharing duties with Mark Shelton and an intention to move away from the classic Manilla Road sound. Tracklist: 01. Road To Chaos (instrumental) 02. Dig Me No Grave 03. D.O.A. 04. Into The Courts Of Chaos 05. From Beyond 06. A Touch Of Madness 07. (Vlad) The Impaler 08. The Prophecy 09. The Book Of Skelos 10. Far Side Of The Sun (Live-Bonustrack)
