OCTAVARIUM

Dream Theater is my favorate band, and I really rock out to their music, but I was a little disappointed when I listened to the new octavarium cd about an hour ago. As soon as track 8 was over I had to stick in the scenes from a memory cd and rock out to strange deja vu and beyond this life. Octavarium really made me sad and im probably not going to go see a local jazz/blues/funk band thats playing tonight. One thing I dont understand is on the dream theater website under biography, they talk about octavarium (I think portnoy) and he said their last album (train of thought) was the heaviest, which I agree with, but then he said, "we wanted to go back to a more traditional Dream Theater style." Either they failed on that idea, or I guess im the only one that thinks theres no "traditional Dream Theater style" about this new album. I think they rushed into the making of this cd, trying to change too many things, like making their songs shorter, and trying to find their traditional style, which no band should have to try to find, because your style is your style and it shouldn't change. Look what happened to metallica.. I loved their old stuff but now their a bunch of pussies. Anyway, it IS a good cd, just not extremely badass like their others, and I cant rock out to it as much. Dream theater is my favorate band and probably always will be. Hopefully they will go back to badassness, even if it takes another 5 years for them to come out with their next album, I would rather have it be that then have a new one of these albums come out in the next year or two.