LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT

Liquid Tension Experiment is an instrumental progressive metal project composed by John Petrucci on guitar, Mike Portnoy on drums, Tony Levin on bass and Jordan Rudess in keyboards.This is his first album, and still amazes me after all this time listening to him-but he no longer wakes me in my feelings before.

Highlights:

-Paradigm Shift -Osmosis (this track seems to have come directly from the album "Discipline" from King Crimson-Levin is to blame!) -Kindred Spirits((the riff of introducing this band is like the "Carry on carryward son" of Kansas) -Freedom of speech -State of Grace -Universal Mind

4 stars-good, but the relaxed atmosphere and the improvisations take points from him, as his successor is much better.