Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

"it's quite good in places." [2]



Returning to this album and there's a lot of interesting bits that would have been cool to hear expanded on, like the more jazzy and orchestral parts.

Money, love and FAAAAIIIIIITH!!!!!!

Album Rating: 3.5

I still hate the last track but this has its moments

Album Rating: 3.0

The title track...?

Used to jam this and now I... kinda hate it?

Album Rating: 2.5

Production is horrendous on this album. Very boring and by the numbers album by a band who have seemingly lost their inspiration at this point.

Album Rating: 3.5

I meant the last track, it doesn't do anything for me. Some songs are quite nice and the ballads have great solos. Surrender to Reason is great

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

"...by the numbers album". Kind of my thoughts on this, and I feel it should be a 3.5 not a 4 because of this. There's not much reason to listen to this over any other DT album, it's just a bit tame/watered down.



However, when I do listen to it, I enjoy it, which keeps me from rating below a 4 (for now).

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah it's a bit strange with this one. I used to jam it a lot upon its release but don't have any desire to jam it again, but when I stumble upon a track I enjoy it quite a bit.



Plus production on here is abysmal, it's so compressed I'm unable to spin it with good headphones. Petrucci totally messed it up...

Album Rating: 2.0

I jammed this a couple times upon it's release and was bored to fucking tears each time. And I was looking forward to this one.

Album Rating: 3.5

I was looking forward to The Astonishing as well... Never thought they' d fall this far.

Album Rating: 2.0

Yeah :-/ I got into them around the time they released Train of Thought so I just missed their "best albums" streak

Album Rating: 3.5

My brother introduced me to I&W back then, about a year later Awake was released. I was hooked on DT the day I first heard the opening tone of Pull Me Under and my enthusiasm and love for this band remains unbroken to this day. They'll always hold a place very dear to my heart and no matter what they'll come up with their legacy remains untouched for me.

Album Rating: 3.5

certainly not classic DT, but damn Lucca, a 2?



i really enjoy the enemy inside, the looking glass, and illumination theory

Album Rating: 2.0

Fuck, I wish my brother didn't wait like 10 years to show me this band lol but he showed me like everything else so it's hard to complain



And yeah Titan, I dunno man this album legitimately bores the shit out of me and I wish it didn't. Systematic Chaos, this, Astonishing, Black Clouds and probably another album I am forgetting just don't do it for me. It sounds like they became a shitty rip off of themselves but without any of the heart and it depresses me because Images, Awake and Scenes are some of my all time favorite albums with Six Degrees and Octavarium being really awesome too.

Album Rating: 3.5

i get it man, far from a classic among others that you mentioned....a few gems sprinkled throughout here and there tho

Album Rating: 2.0

I mean I got to hear Octavarium when that was new so that was cool - also A Dramatic Turn of Events wasn't terrible.

Album Rating: 3.5

I enjoy this one more than Octavarium tbh... totally lost interest in it, I even like Systematic Chaos somehow better than Octavarium as a whole.



Apart from The Astonishing there are good or even great tunes to be found on any album though.

Album Rating: 3.2

This album is basically the definition of a regular, average DT record. Not bad, not great, just... kinda there.



As for Octavarium, I have a ton of nostalgia with that one. It was one of my first metal albums ever, and I got it when I was about 12 or 13. I think Sound of Perseverance and Deadwing (the latter of which I qualify as prog metal) beat it by just a little bit, but yeah... that was one of the first for me. And I still enjoy it a ton to this day. In fact, it would probably make Top 5 DT for me

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, nostalgia's always a force to be reckoned with :]