They had their moments.

Album Rating: 3.5

Saying that Metropolis pt 2 and I&W are mediocre should be consider a crime against decent people

prob suck

Album Rating: 2.5

Not really

Album Rating: 2.5

Illumination Theory is the worst "epic" they've done to date. It has no feeling and LaBrie's vocals are just horrendous

Album Rating: 2.5

It follows the exact same structure as count of tuscany too, and while that song was decent I guess, illumination does everything worse. Not that it's terrible or anything

Album Rating: 2.5

The Count of Tuscany feels better and has that tense verse, which the music complements perfectly.



Yeah, it's not bad, but just average. I really didn't like the last section in the song, where it tries to be epic like Octavarium, but falls flat on its face

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah lol

Album Rating: 2.5

The worst is when they try it on The Bigger Picture, trying to be so inspirational. They should have gotten a drummer who wanted change, unlike Mangini, or just have that 5 years break that Portnoy suggested

Album Rating: 2.5

Not just the Bigger Picture, they do it in every song on here besides the instrumentals and enemy inside, and it all just falls flat

Album Rating: 2.5

They had it, now they're just overdoing it because they still think they had it

Album Rating: 3.0

His new guitar is gorgeous, the music doesn't do justice to it at all

Album Rating: 3.0

You're DIGGING UP a gold mine



Fucking enjoyable song

Album Rating: 3.0

The Looking Glass was a highlight for me at first, but now I just can't even listen to it. The chorus is

great, but everything else is just so uninspired. Surrender To Reason is the best on here in my opinion

Album Rating: 4.0

naah, this album is rock solid. you just have to take it for what it is, and not what it could be/should be/what previous albums were.



false awakening suite is boss.

Album Rating: 3.0

False Awakening Suite is okay, it has some decent riffs, but I don't like the idea of a 3-part 3-minute song with too many riffs; it's just too disjointed.



For what it is the album is pretty solid, I just don't really like what it is. With some songs they really reach what they wanted to achieve with this though; the whole second side of the album is a solid 4. But ugh that first side is like the worst thing they've ever done imo

i'll take it for what it is - safe and mostly uninteresting

If MP had some lame idea of what "metal" is then so does JP. This is a JP album and it really lacks balls tbh. Black Clouds was so good and this is so meh.
I like hearing the bass though, that's pretty cool.

Album Rating: 2.5

The songwriting is just poor and lazy and I refuse to compromise

pretty much. even the wanky parts really don't bring it.
It's like an imitaion of DT