OCTAVARIUM

Dream Theater were my first approach to progressive music and i really liked the way they put toghether elements of progressive and elements of metal. Later i discovered many bands able to give a deeper dimension of music to me, like Yes, King Crimson, Rush, Genesis, ELP etc.. etc.. and i've been also deceived by DT beacause after 'Metropolis II' i thought they would have turned to a deeper dimension following the seventies footprints... but unfortunately thay kept the metal soul too close to their music producing poor records like 'six degrees...' or 'train of thoughts' or... this one. It's very sad to see they left the prog soul recording a 'trendy-metal' album, it seems they are feeling too old and they are trying to make music for teenagers; some of the tracks sound like Evanescence or Linking park and you can hear a confused James LaBrie on those tracks. It's hard to hear Jordan Rudess as well, infact there is no harmonic space for his tipical keyboard openings. Myung is always covered by Petrucci and Portnoy who keep on playing faster and faster, maybe they think music is an olympic discipline... In the end i hope DT will understand they're not 20 years old anymore and try to make a more complex record like they used to do in the past