Album Rating: 2.5
well i will patiently wait for earthside to take the crown......have a feeling i'll be waiting for a very long time
no one comes close folks
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
That would be the case if Dream Theater was still be putting out albums like Scenes and Awake, but that isn't the case anymore...
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
Native Construct was the band that saved my summer holidays last year, along with Beardfish. Too complex, but once you learn the songs, it's heaven.
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
It's a bit too much for me I guess haha
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
All life's meaning can be found in that mini saxophone solo they have.
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Album Rating: 2.0
"I'll never understand how Rudess manages to get tones that sound like a $300 casio out of $3000 boards."
Hahaha, laughed so hard at that!!! Was just listening to Brother Can You Hear Me with this awkward pseudo-trumpet-synth in the beginning, so true.
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Album Rating: 2.5
not so sure thats Jordan.....didn't they bring in an orchestra?
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Album Rating: 2.0
Yes they did, but I highly doubt that's the orchestra. The tone is cut off too abruptly to come frome real wind instruments.
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Album Rating: 2.5
they can alter it however they want! i'd be surprised actually if that was Jordan
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Album Rating: 2.0
Sure, but what sense would it make to alter it this way? It just sounds not natural to me. I'd be surprised if this wasn't Jordan.
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Album Rating: 2.5
perhaps.....liner notes pending
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Album Rating: 2.0
Man this was one long and mostly tedious listen. Some good songs and inspired moments burried under a barrage of sappy autopilot ballads and rock opera-like failures. For the first time I truly felt that DT is just practically phoning in and going through the motions.
Tried my best, but this one lost my attention quickly.
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Heard half of the album, nothing managed to get my attention.
That said, Labrie sounds better regarding the previous two albums, and the same goes for the overall sound.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I don't think they're phoning it in but rather trying something different and not nailing it by playing too safe and being too ambitious. Agreed that you could cut an hour out of this and leave the more creative/new bits in and this would probably be a 4 or even 4.5.
Got tickets to see this live, not sure if I'll buy the actual album. They'll probably use that horrible CGI from the trailer for the performance backdrop *shudders* but the music will be cool.
"Labrie sounds better regarding the previous two albums" [2] You can hear where they used obvious computer correction at parts though.
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"trying something different and failing by playing it too safe and being too ambitious."
this is like a triple oxymoron
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Album Rating: 3.0
All that said, looking forward to new Haken and Fates Warning this year for my prog/metal fixes.
"this is like a triple oxymoron " Hahah yeah I realized it after I wrote it. They don't challenge themselves creatively enough but wrote too much material at the same time, is what I mean.
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
A New Beginning is a great tune, though.
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Album Rating: 3.0
It really is. Has an I&W-like quality, imo.
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Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
well, not sure about that. it's more energetic, that's definite. Begin Again, on the other side is atrocious. Jingle bells and shit.
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
I want to know what the mechanical bubble fart noises on track 33 are.
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