OCTAVARIUM

I don't understand how this album has no mor rating. I've heard all the studio albums of Dream Theater and I can asure that this is one of the two better. The other is Scenes From a Memory. It seems to me that the join of Jordan Rudess gave the group other contexture. In this album all the five musicians makes the best work. No one other line up could made these musics. A powerful, solid an rich rhythmic base by Mike Portnoy and John Myung, the music lines crossing themselves by John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess and the voice, like other instrument of James La Brie, in complete coordination. There's no one imperfection or fault in the whole album. Someone can say that the theme I walk beside you sound too much like U2, but this makes no other thing that confirm the versatility of the group. High points: The Root of all Evil (pure strenght and rhythm), The Answer lies within (a beautiful and powerful melody), Panic Attack and Sacrifice Sons (perfect examples of what Symphonic rock means today). A masterpiece.