OCTAVARIUM

The first DT album, I have buy, was the great Awake, it have change my perception of progressive Music and greatly modify my way of composition... How many fan of progressive music aren't musician...???

I always ask myself since 6DOIT then Tot if DT aimed the greatest commercial quality, or if it is the sucks Quest...

1 - The Root of All Evil - The continuation of Mike Portnoy's Alcoholics Anonymous saga started back on Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence with The Glass Prison and followed on Train of Thought by This Dying Soul. I never wanted to become alcoholic, but thanks to this saga, as Rhapsody has done with the emerald sword on me, my axe always on my shoulder... Sorry... Nothing really original in this song...

2 - The Answer Lies Within - Emptiest Ballad of DT, but a great performance for James Labrie whose voice fits perfectly to slow rythm and clean voices, who said very big pop singers???

3 - These Walls - Linkin Park could have played this one...

4 - I Walk Beside You - U2 could have played this one...

5 - Panic Attack - First real DT song of the album, some good harmony, but we are far from Awake or I&Words...

6 - Never Enough - Muse could have played this one... A good classical guitar solo, in the middle, same effects that Matthew Bellamy on James Labrie Voice...

7 - Sacrificed Sons - ...

8 - Octavarium - Empty until 12'19, a progressive rock song which take a lot of time to say something, but after it's very Rock'n'roll, very good ending for an album...

I've bought this Cd for some listening and i've like 4 minutes in it... Like Metallica, if you are a old no-brain fan, buy this Cd... As a deep shit it could be a fan always buy a Cd , like I've done with these fabulous Octavarium... But real no brain fan would say with the Octavarium Tour T-shirt, "It's an excellent album of DT..." Or a poisonous present to someone you dislike... My last DT's album aimed, DT has died with Kevin Moore, and them memorie with SFAM...

Go buy some procupine tree, or planetX, or Spock's Beard, or SymphonyX, or Chroma Key... Them really plays progressive music, not soap...