OCTAVARIUM

This is a good album, However it would have been better if they released another album like ToT. In this album they truly became a commercial band, tracks like I walk beside you and The answer lies within had horrible lyrics for this kind of band. I usually like de mellow tracks from DT but this time they made a terrible mistake. In this album Ruddess is back again, but portnoy, myung and Petrucci gave up all their efforts for making original music. The only track that deserves a better qualification is the title track, wich i expected to be the new ACOS, but although i became a dissapointed, it turned to be a really well balanced track and very well executed. Labrie excels hear and Petrucci shows his softer side, which is his best side for me. Its a very nice song and quite magic also, and some prog rock can be heard here, but they are always using to much the raw material from ELP, Genesis, Yes, Tull, etc. I want to hear DT style, that had been buired since Falling into Infinity, I trully expect a new I&W album, but with this new one my hopes had been tottaly killed.