DIFFERENT SHAPES

A very good combination of speed riffs and great keyboard sounds and ideas... Though I think that the drums sound a little fake, especially the drum kick that sounds like trigged... Most likely the drums are not natural but sounds really nice with the rest of the music... I think it is a great power/progressive album...

A perfect copy of Dream Theater!!!

DGM without Luciano Regoli (but with the Italian Metal singer wizard Titta Tani) has turned a true copy of Drean Theater! They also lost any reference to the Italian Prog becoming a sterile and without soul band. 100% technique... No feeling in my mind... No magic in my mind... Certainly this remain a great band. But the defects of Prog Metal are all in this album.

If the writing style is contamined by Symphony X, Vanden Plas or Artension the final result not conquest me.

In every case: great production, good booklet and good Titta Tani. But no one song remain in my mind. Only the aggressive guitars and drums remain in my mind.

Excuse me but if I speak about Prog Metal I seek a more varied and less aggressive music.

3.5 this time

Sixth studio album of this italian prog metal band released in 2007 named Diffrent shapes is an inprovement over previous one, the arrangements are more precise, more direct in aproach, the power metal elements are all over again, but this time are very well melted with progressive ones. This time DGM climb a stair from previous relese and that is a good thing, if this one was sounding like Misplaced I will forget for good about this band. Even the album is good and the musicianship is quite great on entire release, Diffrent shapes brings nothing new in DGM sound or in prog metal scene. 3 stars maybe 3.5 because the album sounds good , professional and maybe better then many power metal releases with prog metal leaning in last years, even is not fantastic. I remain to Wings of time and Dream land to be the best DGM albums ever, the resta re only ok with few excetions of greatness.