Hi!
I think it's a very good album too. It contains songs that reminds me above everything to the 90's (Warmongers, Black Bart, Into the west for example), and Last of the Mohicans is their best long song since The Ghost. But well, it's a matter of tastes.
Of course I prefer a "real sound" in drums, but I'm not annoying with that. They could sound better with a 80's or 90's production, that is a fact, but they (or better said, Rolf) always have conserved the unique sound of Running wild.
Well, really I agree with you, since The brotherhood for me it's practically a solo band too, it's true.