"The Sound of Madness" went in different musical and lyrical directions as compared to the band's previous two albums. Barry Kerch noted that lineup changes and volatility in the band members' lives produced a darker and angrier sound. The album's lead single, "Devour", is an anti-war anthem, but "The Sound of Madness" also contains "If You Only Knew", the band's first love ballad. "Amaryllis" has been noted to have a more positive, "anthemic" bent. Writing for "Loudwire", Anne Erickson described the album's sound as "aggressive-yet-cathartic." Their fifth studio album, "Threat to Survival", was described as the band's most "pop-oriented" album, with the single "State of My Head" being referred to as "a slick amalgam of electro-pop and vintage alt-rock with a catchy as hell though extremely well-worn chorus." The 2018 follow-up, "Attention Attention", is a concept album that begins with the narrator in a "dark, negative place" and gradually emerging from that over the course of the track listing. Both "Threat to Survival" and "Attention Attention" have been described as having more of a pop rock sound but have also been described as hard rock.