BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS

Unfortunately, while the other bands which know their limits, try to find something new, something astonishing, DT prefer to draw some good riff from their past (Six degrees and Metropolis above all) and create a new album.

What I have found good in this new work is the more relaxed sound. They've abandoned (thanks God, at last) the extreme power playing to a softer one (even if in their own way! Please don't misunderstand me!).

What I have found bad is the lack of creativity: the riffs are quite good, sometimes very good, but the solos, especially the Petrucci ones, start enriched with feeling and lose themselves along the path, to give space to the (oh, my god!) poor usual speed of performing. Even Portnoy, while his hands perform beautiful things, his feet seem to be obsessed by the double bass drum and very often is exagerated and without any purpouse.

If a "mortal" can give advices to "gods": please, reduce speed and increase feeling, because you've been able to do this in the past!

Three stars, not more

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