SIX DEGREES OF INNER TURBULENCE

I dont understand why so many diehard fans of DT do not have this double cd among their favs DT albums. After their magnificent work "Scenes from a memory", they were in inmersed in an alomst impossible task, creating a disc that were good enough to stand shoulder by shoulder with their major masterpiece.

Well, here the band understood quite well that it was time to make a change in his musical direction, with this new double cd they become symphonyc, experimental, trashy, mellow, but always with their classic sound.

The first cd has 5 songs,

The Glass Prison: This track begins where "Scenes from a memory" lefts us, but takes an opposite direction, this is pure trash metal but with the great technical ability of a prog band, the prelude of ToT. This track is technically amazing, but fails a bit to drag listeners attention, because sometimes Petrucci´s solos are to long and Ruddes keyboards are too damn fast!.Howewer this track seems to recover fast when its start to get lost, a quite amazing Prog Thrash metal track! 9/10

Blind Faith: A quite good track, almost hard rock, with great show of from Ruddess and Petrucci again, but for me its the weakest track on this album. Its fails to much in draging your attention. 7/10

Misunderstood: A great vocal work of Labrie, a very mellow track in the begining, but then turn into a Crimson-esque track. Fantastic Very nice ending also. 8/10

The Great Debate: The best track on this cd, ist about Stem Cell Research, but i dont care too much about that, the best is the music. OUTSTANDING drumming from Portnoy, very well balanced and supported by the almost perfect bass lines, a lot of great ideas can be found in this track. Besides, it has wonderful start and ending also.10/10

Disappear: Wow, when I first heard this track, I said this can not be DT!! Amazing musicianship, very dark and doomy at times, yet very beatiful, but its too short!! Hear the band seems Radiohead, (remember karma police).Overall 9/10

Second cd has 1 song, divided in eight pieces.

Six Dregrees of inner turbulence: This amazing title track is among dt bests, 42 minutes!! A quite long piece for a Metal band don´t you think. This track is almost perfect, it has lots of influences, like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, etc. Goodnight kiss and Solitary Shell are awesome, the song reaches his peak here. Here the band shows that they can be Symphonic and they do it well!!

Not the best DT track but one of those that would became classic in the future: 10/10

Conclusion: For those who dont like DT because they lack the magic of the old Symphonic bands, like Genesis, Yes, Elp, well, here is the proof that Dream Theater must be considered one those few bands that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the great bands of prog rock. A must have for true prog rock lovers!!!