OCTAVARIUM

Dream Theater

Progressive Metal

3.69 | 2231 ratings

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The first track is decent. A good hard rocking song, a good continuation of Mike Portnoy's twelve steps.

The last track is great: a sprawling 24 minute epic, with beautiful parts, a savagely intense section, head-spinning instrumental madness and a truly magnificent climatic guitar solo by John Petrucci.

Everything in between is terrible. Puerile, obvious lyrics. Predictable riffs. Poor rehashes of everything Dream Theater has done before. One track that is designed to sound like COLDPLAY, that most irrefutably dull of all "bands". This is not Images & Words. This is laughable.

Octavarium - the song itself - is the album's mitigating factor. This song alone secures the album a three star rating.

YearEnd | 3/5 | 2007-4-13

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