OCTAVARIUM

Oh, well. I've listened to this album many times, but to be honest it was really annoying and terrible at first. Many others say that LaBrie's voice is not the perfect to fit into DT's music, but it was really fine for me on the other discs. James is a really good and talented singer but this album is the first where his voice made my ears "pain".

I think it is not a bad album, but lacks of the old DT humour of music and diversity. It is a very good ordinary-metal music, but for getting the attribute 'progressive' this performance is not enough. Maybe I am the one who REALLY love the long and nimble solos of JR and JP, and I missed them on this album.

So, it is a good album, and if it wasn't a DT output, anyone could get amazed by it, but it is incomparable to the masterpiece Scenes...

I can give it onle three stars because of progressivity, it could get five on a heavy-metal page. :)