As much as I love Follow the Reaper, if they'd followed it with two albums that sounded just like it, I would be bored with it.

Just my opinion, but to me finding a "formula" that your fans dig and milking it for all its worth is just as bad as, say, starting out like CoB did then suddenly becoming an Emo or Pop Punk band. For me, there has to be some kind of evolution taking place.