It is. Which of these is it better than? Bored, My Own Summer, Hexagram, Hole In the Earth, Diamond Eyes, Swerve City, or Prayers/Triangles? It's a more a testament to how good their openers are.
Feiticeira approaches genius. Classy, heavy, creepy, beautiful, sinister, graceful, angular, smooth. It's phenomenal.
I vastly underestimated how much y'all like Feiticera. I think it's pretty good, and I can see the arguments for it being better than Bored and Prayers/Triangles, but that's about it.
I do not like P/T. I thought it was going to sound way different when they teased the riff before releasing Gore, but man I really can't get into what Chino did with it.
Yeah this is how it is for me, I've had to retrain my brain to try to view Feiticera as the opener and it's just never set the mood properly for me. Digital Bath is also super weird as the second song on an album.