Dream Theater Octavarium new album cover

DREAM THEATER - Octavarium (2005)
Review by Rooskie @ 9:17:35 PM EST, 4/17/2005

—   I've to say that I'm SO DISSAPOINTED WITH THIS ALBUM. I was big DT fan, until now. The begining of the album is similar to Metallica's Orion and the previous Change of Seasons. The whole album is a great mix of "technical masturbation", Metallica, and similar heavy metal sound. The work is quite linear, it consists of 8 tracks, but it's seems like almost one. I had the chance to get to their Octavarium (track 9) premix, that's a 12 min song, ironically they didn't include that one on the final version, AND OCTAVARIUM 12 min long, is REALLY A GREAT PROG/EXPERIMENTAL TRACK, the rest of the album, sorry DT, is just trash!!!! Sorry again, I must apologize to DT fans, but consider this one like an insult from our beloved DT. Listen to it and realize what I'm talking about.



Well it didn't take long for a review to show up. Is this legit? Is the album already making the rounds in the P2P networks?

chorus of one wrote: Ben2112 wrote: DREAM THEATER - Octavarium (2005) Review by Rooskie @ 9:17:35 PM EST, 4/17/2005 —   I've to say that I'm SO DISSAPOINTED WITH THIS ALBUM. I was big DT fan, until now. The begining of the album is similar to Metallica's Orion and the previous Change of Seasons. The whole album is a great mix of "technical masturbation", Metallica, and similar heavy metal sound. The work is quite linear, it consists of 8 tracks, but it's seems like almost one. I had the chance to get to their Octavarium (track 9) premix, that's a 12 min song, ironically they didn't include that one on the final version, AND OCTAVARIUM 12 min long, is REALLY A GREAT PROG/EXPERIMENTAL TRACK, the rest of the album, sorry DT, is just trash!!!! Sorry again, I must apologize to DT fans, but consider this one like an insult from our beloved DT. Listen to it and realize what I'm talking about. Well it didn't take long for a review to show up. Is this legit? Is the album already making the rounds in the P2P networks? No the album is NOT leaked, there are tracks by other bands labelled with the Octavarium names floating around though. God some people are stupid...

Ah, I figured (and hoped) that might be the case. The same thing happened before TOT's release, and also the first Audioslave album. Don't people have anything better to do than flood the P2P networks with bogus files? I guess they think they're getting downloaders back or something, but you're right, they must think we are stupid (and evidently some people are) to not be able to tell the difference between one of your favorite bands and an imposter.

Ah. I just created a topic wondering about this review. Thanks for saving me the time of checking for a reply every 3 minutes haha.

Good to hear that the negative review was "bogus."  I'm only a casual Dream Theater fan, but still I have high hopes for this one.

If it says Crucify in the first song, that's Elements of Persuasion. Hasn'T anybody here heard it? It's a great album.

Edited by XeRocks81

Cover looks really cool.  Hopefully the album lives up.

Ben2112 wrote: chorus of one wrote: Ben2112 wrote: I dunno, I went and checked my P2P network of choice, and there were three songs supposedly from Octavarium. I d/led the first one (track 1-The Root Of All Evil) and it is definitely DT, nothing I've ever heard, and I do have all their albums. If it is the real thing, it is very similar to TOT as it still has a very heavy metallic edge to it. And the reviewer is right, the beginning is quite similar to the intro to Change Of Seasons in that it starts out with an arpeggiated acoustic seven-string figure. Read the posts above...just because James Labrie is singing doesn't mean it's 'definitely DT'. Well it wasn't just the voice. I challenge you to listen to that song and tell me it doesn't sound like some DT stuff. I'm sure there is a reason why whomever chose that particular track to "mimic" DT.

I'm not saying it would be hard to get fooled, but at least you're not going to go review it now are you?

Ben2112 wrote: chorus of one wrote: Ben2112 wrote: I dunno, I went and checked my P2P network of choice, and there were three songs supposedly from Octavarium. I d/led the first one (track 1-The Root Of All Evil) and it is definitely DT, nothing I've ever heard, and I do have all their albums. If it is the real thing, it is very similar to TOT as it still has a very heavy metallic edge to it. And the reviewer is right, the beginning is quite similar to the intro to Change Of Seasons in that it starts out with an arpeggiated acoustic seven-string figure. Read the posts above...just because James Labrie is singing doesn't mean it's 'definitely DT'. Well it wasn't just the voice. I challenge you to listen to that song and tell me it doesn't sound like some DT stuff. I'm sure there is a reason why whomever chose that particular track to "mimic" DT.

Oh there's no doubt that it sounds like DT, especially since it is a very heavy and aggressive album much like TOT.  THe lead guitar player on EOP, an unknown named Marco Sfogli(?) is a big Petrucci fan and JP even sent him a couple of his signature EB/MM guitars to record the album.

OMG, this is adding insult to injury now :

DREAM THEATER Octavarium
Review by Bialkomat @ 2:54:12 PM EST, 4/18/2005

I deleted both reviews, they were much inappropriate !