Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah this t/t is #1

Album Rating: 3.0

yeah oct t/t shouldn't be ignored but otherwise dunno if i'd take a single post-scenes song on my top 10

Never been that big on Octavarium tbh. ACoS destroys it

Album Rating: 4.0

The glass prison, name of god, this t/t, glass prison, and maybe breaking all illusions would be my top 10 from post-scenes

Album Rating: 4.0

ACoS destroys it [2]

Album Rating: 4.0

The individual song ACOS is their second best only behind the Octavarium t/t, but the whole EP? Nah

Album Rating: 4.0

I was talking about the song. And it's the best thing they've done, period.

Album Rating: 4.0

It's close for me. The Octavarium t/t is so consistent and builds to an amazing second half. ACOS is almost as good, but the different movements feel like starkly individual songs that just flow into each other, like this album's second disk.

Album Rating: 4.0

I feel that for the last 4 odd minutes on ACOS (the melodies are still great), but the rest of the song flows beautifully imo. The transitions from verse to chorus and then that hauntingly gorgeous mellow section halfway that gradually builds up to Labrie's screams and Petrucci's solo. My God it's sad whats happened to these guys

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah I agree, like I said, it's my second favorite of theirs. I don't know if you saw my post of this a few days ago but I thought it'd be a neat idea if they had taken the five or six best songs from FII and then put the ACOS song after, it'd easily be a top 3 DT album. Awesome playlist to make anyway

Album Rating: 3.5

ACOS > 8varium > 6DOIT



as far as their epics

Album Rating: 4.0

You really count 6deg as a single song? It's far too disjointed to ever be considered it in my mind

Album Rating: 3.5

yes I do

Album Rating: 4.5

6 Degrees > ACoS > Octavarium



And yes, "6 Degrees" is a whole 42-minute song, just like "Thick as a Brick" and "Karn Evil 9" are both songs.

Album Rating: 4.0

Reverse that ranking and you have mine

Album Rating: 3.5

6 Degrees on paper sounds awesome, but it is indeed so disjointed and incoherent. It has some pretty cool parts, but unlike Thick As A Brick, for example, most of 6Deg as a whole doesn't share a particular ambience or any recurring musical ideas. Nonetheless, 6Deg is still a very good song, but under any expectations I could've had for a 40-minute DT epic

Album Rating: 4.0

It sure as hell doesn't act like a full song as Oni says. To me, it doesn't matter if a band say it's a whole song, cos in that case, an album that transitions from one song to another throughout the album is one whole song by those standards. Most of tracks on disc 2 act as their own songs with their own structures and build up. If DT did make a 40 minute song for real, it wouldn't be anything like this and would actually flow better and reprise the melodies more than once

Album Rating: 4.0

Octavarium and ITPOE are the only times they really succeed with that, unless Count of Tuscany or Illumination Theory count as epics too. But those aren't as good anyway

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, I think 6 Degrees was maybe mistake, or at least a very risky and ambitious thing to do, but it turned out to be not so bad after all. The thing is, usually, when DT do epics, they are extremely complex, cohesive and interesting, as they can expand all the aspects of their shorter, 10-minute songs a lot. However, with 6 Degrees you end up listening to a bunch of pretty nice, quite simple 4 or 5-minute songs, and that's definitely not what one would expect.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah it's great but doesn't get incredible or top tier until the last two songs