TRAIN OF THOUGHT

I'm a GREAT FUN of the Theater (I've got all of their works), but this one is absolutely the worst. A part from "as I am" and "endless sacrifice" (not bad songs), the other seems to appear vacant and empty tracks....Dream Theater seems a band running out of new ideas (though with a great musicianship) which in the following album (octavarium) is able to find and to demonstrate. Melodic metal in some parts and with some thrash elements somewhere...heavy in some tracks, but melodic and maybe weak in some others..Attention: I don't mean that melodic or symphonic songs are bad (I really like this kind of sounds), but in this album, the few melodic parts, seems forced and not naturally played as in "Scenes from a memory". This work is reccomendable just for a Theater fun...