Album Rating: 4.0
If you don't like Change of Seasons, you probably aren't going to like Dream Theater. To me, it's a spectacular song and comfortably in their top 5
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Album Rating: 4.5
Damn this is actually good!
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I liked the intro song, Bend the Clock is great, The Shadow Man is good... Gonna have to listen more to the rest. The wanking off on this DT album seems reasonable, they're not just there for a good ol fun wank. They seem more purposeful. Sounds great, doesn't break any boundaries, but the albums seems really honed in.
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Album Rating: 3.5
It's nice to see so much love for DT on this release
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Album Rating: 3.5
Never thought I'd see a DT album in 2025 with a 3.9 after 100+ rates
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Album Rating: 3.5
Excerpts from this review are on the wikipedia page for this album!
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Album Rating: 4.5
Eh I’m sticking with a 4.5 for now. This album has a lot hidden under the hood on repeated listens with leitmotifs and melodic reprisals, ties things together in a way I haven’t heard from them in a long time. Best album since Train of Thought? It’s more likely than you think
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Album Rating: 3.5
Mike Portnoy’s compositional mind is the glue that secretly always held this band together. This album proves it. It’s just cohesive in a way that the Mangini albums never were. I think Portnoy is much more involved in the songwriting process than most people realize.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Honestly this might be a 4.5
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Album Rating: 3.5
honestly I don't think i've ever felt strongly enough for or against this band to go beyond around here for most of their discog - 3.5 is praise from me here
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Album Rating: 3.5
I think I still prefer Distance Over Time, but if they tried something like that again with Portnoy, it would be amazing
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Album Rating: 4.0
hawks I don't think progressive metal is bad, it's such a wide umbrella term after all
I can understand why Dream Theater's particular brand pisses people off though, it's got this technical wankery circus vibe and extremely elitist fans
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Album Rating: 4.5
Definitely their most focused release in a while.
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bend the clock is really good and the only song i want to keep listening to. rock ballads are low key one of DT's strengths and LeBries vocals actually match that type of song
midnight messiah feels like something off Train Of Thought in the heavy sections, though itd probs be weakest track on that record
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Album Rating: 3.5
@Ocean I think DoT was the most cohesive Mangini era album and the compositions were genuinely enjoyable rather than contrived and overly long
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Album Rating: 3.5
Yea, DoT has some really great melodies and choruses, I really like that record. They also tried to write some songs there, not just glue together jams with choruses lol
I must admit Night Terror is quite catchy though. I like that chorus
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
I feel like the self titled did that better though, I really hate how drowned in effects LaBrie is on DoT, and how he sounds overall there
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Album Rating: 3.5
Absolutely agreed Omair. They lost their knack for longer songs after Portnoy left.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Honestly, after a second listen my opinion on this has dulled a little. I still like a lot of things about it, but there are still some trademark Mangini-era structural issues, especially with the last 2 tracks. Petrucci and Rudess just don’t know how to make longer tracks make sense.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I get that it’s Prog and DT are an old school band but songs don’t need to be overly long to be progressive or good. The self titled (although a bit bland) and DoT showed that shorter song oriented compositions with prog elements are enjoyable.
My stamina for too many long instrumental heavy songs in one album has decreased a lot over the years I guess
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