OCTAVARIUM

I'm 17 years old and after an infance about red hot chili peppers and joh lennon, I discovered Dream Theater, and I became a fan, becoming deeper and deeper inside the band's albums and projects. I learned every song of Scenes from a Memory and Images and Words (teh best albums i know), and when I could get enaugh of Dream Theater and I needed more, I knew a new album was coming. Incredible pictures and a great comercialisation make me to expect a great album. The day of release was comming... (before that I had a terrible moment with a false octavarium - it was Element of Persuasion of James Labrie), but the day come and I got the cd... it was everithing else but not Dream Theater. The Root of all evil was a song without new ideas... ¿where were the real PROG metal times? that was just boring metal (and I love metal). The answer lies within was just trying to copy the soft songs of good times like "another day", "through her eyes" or "through my words". These Walls was just fine... nothing else, nothing less. When it came I Walk Beside You, i couldn't believe how that great musicians could became such pop as U2 or the BAD TIMES of Genesis (cause I think Genesis is the best that has happened to music in the last Century); that song was just for MTV. Panick Attack has a sound to really rock... that could be good.... that Papa Roach song was on the highest points of the album. Never Enough and Sacrified Sons were good, but not enaugh to make me forget the songs I've just heard. Lately it came the great Octavarium. That was really Dream Theater, that is what I expected about the principal song of the cd. For me taht's the only song in that CD (Comercial Disc). Hope they can get back to old times.