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IMAGES AND WORDS

Dream Theater

 

Progressive Metal

4.31 | 3223 ratings

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Minstrel X
4 stars Quite possibly the album that put this technical band on the map: After the evident inmaturity of "When dream and day Unite" DREAM THEATER pulled out an album full of surprises, a work that definitely changed the metal genre as well, a Progressive Metal obligatory referent, etc.

"Images and Words" starts with the Metallica-driven riff of "Pull me Under", a hard song with an effective guitar solo. After that the track "Another Day" is just a more quiet piece, something that also happens with DREAM THEATER's "Falling into Infinity" (New Millenium-You not Me). Next song, probably my favorite of this album, "Take the Time"; a nice mixture of heavy metal and jazzy-funky rhythms (a great bass line as well). Then the easy listening track "Surrounded" appears (with good vocals from James LaBRie)

It's then time for the most exciting part of it all: The 9-minute track "Metropolis Part 1"; a super technical piece full of transitions and guitar/bass/keyboard solos and very good lyrics. THe sixth track "Under a glass moon" is a power-progressive metal song with strengh that makes a brilliant contrast with "Wait for sleep", the piano driven ballad of Moore and LaBrie.

The last and longest track is "learning to live" with lots of intrincate instrumental playing, as usual for DREAM THEATER, also featuring a very nice acoustic guitar part in the middle of it.

In short, "Images and Words" is one of the most complete albums by DREAM THEATER, along with Metropolis II and "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence".

Minstrel X | 4/5 |

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