A DRAMATIC TURN OF EVENTS

I have to start my review saying: WTF is that???? I am more than disappointed from this album for more that a few reasons... So, where to start... 1. Drums are there just to be there.. No personality what so ever.. I think Mangini is a very good drummer but in this album I think he had nothing to do with the drumming ideas.. I like Portnoy as a drummer and I agree with his decision to leave DT because as it seams they are out of ideas.. 2. Every riff is the same.. The first time I listened to the whole album I thought there was something wrong with my ipod, that it stuck in repeat! 3. What's up with all the choirs all the time?? Rudess found how great Omnisphere's choirs are and had to use them in every song? Gives the whole CD a very bad atmosphere.. And not only that but has no original keyboard ideas, anywhere.. 4. The piano ballads are like Scenes from a memory, riffs are like Labrie's projects, like Mullmuzzler or something, most prog parts are something like their old stuff and a combination of Symphony X, Kansas and Rush.. I am not over-graduating when I say that I find this album a waste of time and money.. I advise everyone that liked DT in their former glory to stay away from this (and pretty much everything after Scenes From A Memory)... I think that bands like these should know when to quit and should have stopped playing a long time ago.. I haven't missed a show in Greece from 1997 to 2005, but now they lost me as a fan...