BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS

Dream Theater

Progressive Metal

3.46 | 1802 ratings

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I see a loads of big reviews of BC&SL here, and to me, it's not possible to read all of them, so sorry if I repeat something what was mentioned here before.

For me, this is a truly amazing album, with full of melodic singing passages, balancing between hard and mellow parts, brilliant technique of all members, clear breathable sound.

The reason I didn't give them a full rate are two songs - AROP and TSF. The are not bad, but missing the spark of next 4 songs.

TSF is very nice completion of previous 4 AA saga songs, but in overall doesn't bring any new moments in such concepts.

In AROP I only like the middle solo sections which are good thrashy, however the song consist of nice chorus.

I will not write any comments about ANTR, Wither, TBOT, TCOT separetely, because you can read it in many other reviews here. For me these songs contain all the aspects I described in my second sentence, they are simply super.

In overall, I'm so glad, that this album has been released and DT have brought us a very listenable, musical masterpiece.

Vlasto | 4/5 | 2010-1-12

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