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GamamJ
September 28th 2020


152 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I guess having Octavarium in my bottom 3 DT albums is a really unpopular opinion.

kalkwiese
September 28th 2020


10421 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Idk it's in my bottom 4 tbh

OmairSh
November 18th 2020


17609 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Surrender to Reason is probably my favourite off this. Tasty

Titan
November 18th 2020


24926 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I like this album a lot, could easily 4 it I think

Pikazilla
November 18th 2020


29756 Comments


It's better than train of thought for sure

Titan
August 7th 2021


24926 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Underrated hard. Illumination Theory alone is worth the price of admission.

Davil667
August 8th 2021


4047 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Some great ones on here for sure. Surrender to Reason, The Looking Glas, Behind the Veil and Along for the Ride are all damn fine tracks. Agreed Titan bro, this is borderline 4 material as a whole.

Sabrutin
August 8th 2021


9686 Comments


As someone who doesn't love this band (love Surrounded tho), this one can be pretty cool.

Titan
August 9th 2021


24926 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm surprised to hear that Sabrutin

Sabrutin
August 12th 2021


9686 Comments


I feel they managed to make these songs pretty "hooky". Along for the Ride for instance is quite tasteful I think.

kalkwiese
August 12th 2021


10421 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

These hooks feel quite generic though, don't they? I would love this though, if the production was better. The drums feel so compressed and static

Titan
August 12th 2021


24926 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Sabrutin, I'm surprised to hear that you're not a big fan.



As for the album, there really isn't a song that I don't like. Enemy Inside, Looking Glass, and Illumination are the standouts for me. The others are all good too.

Sabrutin
August 13th 2021


9686 Comments


"These hooks feel quite generic though, don't they? I would love this though, if the production was better. The drums feel so compressed and static"

Sugar aplenty but I like how they're supported, like the pre-chorus in The Looking Glass with that great ""subtle"" drumming that leads into the chorus. I also can't help but enjoy the catchy call-and-response in The Bigger Picture, then the solo section after the second chorus feels very "earned" if it makes sense (plus it's just great imo).

For the production we can't change the sounds but at least there's the uncompressed digital version with twice the dynamic range.

"Sabrutin, I'm surprised to hear that you're not a big fan."

I don't necessarily dislike them, I can enjoy some stuff, but oftentimes it feels like some crazy technical warm-up exercises

kalkwiese
August 13th 2021


10421 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

On another listen today this is pretty well written imo. It's better than I gave it credit for. Good, hooky songs, I completely agree, Sab

Sabrutin
August 13th 2021


9686 Comments


m/

I'll surely give the discog another run at some point by the way. Also the new single dropped

Parallels
November 5th 2021


10146 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

digging up a gold mine



lol way to make Rush's worst lyrics look like Pablo Neruda

Titan
November 5th 2021


24926 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I definitely like this a lot more than most

Koris
Staff Reviewer
September 24th 2022


21136 Comments

Album Rating: 3.2

Listening to this again for the first time in a while... it's ok, but every song between The Bigger Picture and the closing epic could have been cut; all three songs are boring as hell and needlessly pad the record out. But there's still some good stuff here and there... the epic is still pretty great, and The Enemy Inside is probably one of my favorite straight-up metal bangers of DT's later work

Sabrutin
September 24th 2022


9686 Comments


"but every song between The Bigger Picture and the closing epic could have been cut"
that's like the best part of the record I think

kalkwiese
October 11th 2022


10421 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I am here for the simple, catchy bangers with radio choruses. Enemy, Looking Glass, Picture, Veil, all of them are great DT stuff. Nothing mind blowing, but good stuff.

I wish the instrumental was actually going somewhere tbh, i would love some good new instrumentals by them



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