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As usual Dream Theater makes exceptionally good and very
technical progressive metal. This is one of their best albums so far and also
a very long one, ranging just over 75 minutes. Although it's a very long
recording the music never gets really boring (...well, maybe sometimes it
does...). This album is filled with great highly technical melodic metal of
the very best kind, as you can expect from a band like Dream Theater. More
skilled musicians than Mike Portnoy, Kevin Moore, John Myung and John Petrucci
are really hard to find. The vocals are also fantastic and done by one of the
best male singers on the metal scene, James Labrie, who always has taken song
lessons to improve his voice, which shows the professionalism of this band.
The lyrics deal mostly with human emotions of different kinds - love, desire,
anxiety, hatred, sadness and so on. The only thing that Dream Theater
sometimes fails in is to create appropriate vocal melodies which brings the
music down a little bit. Otherwise this is great progressive metal at its
best, changing nicely from heavy melodic riffs to soft emotional ballads. The
final track on this album is among the best songs I've ever
heard!
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1. 6:00 2. Caught in a web |
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silent man 7. The mirror 8. Lie 9. Lifting shadows of a |
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dream 10. Scarred 11. Space-dye vest |
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