A CHANGE OF SEASONS

I just can not see how a real big prog/metalband like Dream Theater is getting away with this album. After Images and Words and Awake you would expect another great album with a newing sound like the other two albums have. Instead of that we are getting an album with only two (2!) new songs on it. Okay, there's a new song of about 23 minutes and although it is a really great song, it is still just one new song. The other 34 minutes the album lasts is filled with no surprising covers from Elton John (okay, that i didn't expect), Led Zeppelin and other bands like Pink Floyd and Queen. There is also a track named perfect strangers but this song is not worth mentioning because of the poor vocals and it is also not on a good place on this album. James LaBrie is simply a poor singer next to the guitar and drum violence Dream Theater stands for, although he is doing a great job on the newest album of Ayreon. But for instance when he tries to pull of the high screams of Robert Plant in the Led Zeppelin medley it seems he thinks he can actually make it... but he doesn't. John Petrucci is doing a great job though, i think he really ads something in "achilles last stand". Overall i would really not recommend this album to anybody, which is a shame because the titeltrack is really a great piece of work. Just buy the original Led Zeppelin and Elton John and other bands albums because this album is not worth it thanks to the James LaBrie vocals for one. Thank you for reading