SIX DEGREES OF INNER TURBULENCE

CD1 deserves 4 stars, there sure are astonishing songs like the heavy The Glass Prison (which is, by the way, the first part of This Dying Soul from Train of Thought) or Misunderstood... also Blind Faith and The Great Debate (which reminds of the style of OSI, Portnoy's side project) are great songs but not at the level of both previous songs... and Disappear is also a good soft song with nice keyboards. None of the songs in CD1 reaches what they did in Scenes from a Memory but they're still awesome songs. Now, what this album is about and what really deserves 5 (or more) stars is CD2, the Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence suite is amazing and not one single part from it deserves less, as a whole i would say it's totally at the same level of Scenes from a Memory or Images & Words. It couldn't be better assembled and it fuses both the heavy and the prog side of DT that have always been their presentation card. I couldn't come talking about each part of the suite as they are all amazing, what i could add here is that Solitary Shell (what a song!) has the Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill base but with a DT's touch. OK then, go buy the album, at least for CD2!! one word for that = MASTERPIECE... surely a MUST.