OCTAVARIUM

Now, 2 weeks after the massive DT fan base appereance that scattered the site and specially this particular album's page, other people begin to make their own more objective reviews. Many people so far have told everything about each song, so these will be brief.

This is not a bad album at all and it's surely better than the last one (not THAT better though) but if there is something to really take account of, that is the title song: Octavarium. Even though it seems to have many direct influences from 70's bands (Shine on or Crazy Diamond-like intro, Genesis-like Rudess keyboard's great and sudden change and the acoustic melodies at the beginning) this song developes to mix awseome harmonies and melodies with top notch musicanship, resulting in an extraordinary piece of music. This is between my personal TOP 5 songs from DT and i'm sure every 70's prog fan wouldn't say something really bad about it.

After this masterpiece comes songs like The Root of All Evil and Panic Attack. The Root of All Evil is a very good heavy metal song in the vein of its 2 previous "parts" (good as The Glass Prison, not as bad as This Dying Soul) with no individual excesive showing-off and cohesive as a whole. And the other great song of the album is Panic Attack, by far the heaviest of the album and also one of the most interesting songs: excellent riffs, good vocals and certainty when giving "shape" to the song. The rest of songs are not bad, not very good, enjoyable but not memorable.

Conclusion: For all music fans, from all eras, specially for those that keep thinking in DT as a soulless unauthentic band, the song Octavarium is a MUST to listen, an INCREDIBLE song indeed. The other 2 quoted are also very good, give them a try.