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I bought the Divine Wings of Tragedy, and it was the only real disappointment I've had for an album that I've purchased. Meanwhile, I love DT and have half of their albums (Images and Words, Awake, Scenes from a Memory, and Octavarium). Soon I'll buy Six Degrees...
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Dream Theater.  I have THE ODYSSEY and THE DIVINE WINGS OF TRAGEDY  by SymX, and as much as I like 'em, they seem to come off as crass DT clones.
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strangely enough... Symphony X.... heard only one song that was sent to me as a sample a couple of years ago. Never heard anything else but I liked what I heard.. .which put it miles above DT.


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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

strangely enough... Symphony X.... heard only one song that was sent to me as a sample a couple of years ago. Never heard anything else but I liked what I heard.. .which put it miles above DT.


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You've told me you like metal before, and Symphony X is definately more metal and less prog than Dream Theater.
 
For a metal fan, I could easily see how Symphony X would be favored, but for a sophisticated listener of progressive music such as yourself, I don't understand why you wouldn't enjoy Dream Theater more.
 
Note-99% of Symphony X's heavy guitar rythmns are stolen from the intro of Dream Theater's "Under a Glass Moon" on Images and Words.

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Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

strangely enough... Symphony X.... heard only one song that was sent to me as a sample a couple of years ago. Never heard anything else but I liked what I heard.. .which put it miles above DT.


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You've told me you like metal before, and Symphony X is definately more metal and less prog than Dream Theater.
 
For a metal fan, I could easily see how Symphony X would be favored, but for a sophisticated listener of progressive music such as yourself, I don't understand why you wouldn't enjoy Dream Theater more.
 
Note-99% of Symphony X's heavy guitar rythmns are stolen from the intro of Dream Theater's "Under a Glass Moon" on Images and Words.


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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

strangely enough... Symphony X.... heard only one song that was sent to me as a sample a couple of years ago. Never heard anything else but I liked what I heard.. .which put it miles above DT.


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Way to have a sound opinion of a whole band's career on only one song Mikey. Wait a minute... Didn't i send you that song???
 
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Originally posted by Jeff Schu Jeff Schu wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

strangely enough... Symphony X.... heard only one song that was sent to me as a sample a couple of years ago. Never heard anything else but I liked what I heard.. .which put it miles above DT.


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Way to have a sound opinion of a whole band's career on only one song Mikey. Wait a minute... Didn't i send you that song???
 
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hahah.... I did say my opinion was based on only one song hahha... I did like it and I think it was you... or Troy Ponce.  it was a long time ago haha.  I left my mp3 player at home this morning.. I overslept and was late to work hahaha.  I'll do double duty tomorrow..
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Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

strangely enough... Symphony X.... heard only one song that was sent to me as a sample a couple of years ago. Never heard anything else but I liked what I heard.. .which put it miles above DT.


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You've told me you like metal before, and Symphony X is definately more metal and less prog than Dream Theater.
 
For a metal fan, I could easily see how Symphony X would be favored, but for a sophisticated listener of progressive music such as yourself, I don't understand why you wouldn't enjoy Dream Theater more.
 
Note-99% of Symphony X's heavy guitar rythmns are stolen from the intro of Dream Theater's "Under a Glass Moon" on Images and Words.
 
You sound like someone who has never even heard Symphony X and cannot accept the fact that some might prefer them over DT... as if six albums worth of heavy prog material could be taken from one riff ?  COME ON, GIVE UP THE FAN BOY ATTITUDE, you prefer DT, fine with me, they are still better than the majority of crap that passes for music nowadays and deserve their rightful place among prog metal greats (being the originators of that style), but to each his own.  I might have become a DT basher, but not a DT Fan basher... yet !Wink
 
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Originally posted by Melomaniac Melomaniac wrote:

Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

strangely enough... Symphony X.... heard only one song that was sent to me as a sample a couple of years ago. Never heard anything else but I liked what I heard.. .which put it miles above DT.


Symphony X for micky Thumbs Up
 
You've told me you like metal before, and Symphony X is definately more metal and less prog than Dream Theater.
 
For a metal fan, I could easily see how Symphony X would be favored, but for a sophisticated listener of progressive music such as yourself, I don't understand why you wouldn't enjoy Dream Theater more.
 
Note-99% of Symphony X's heavy guitar rythmns are stolen from the intro of Dream Theater's "Under a Glass Moon" on Images and Words.
 
You sound like someone who has never even heard Symphony X and cannot accept the fact that some might prefer them over DT... as if six albums worth of heavy prog material could be taken from one riff ?  COME ON, GIVE UP THE FAN BOY ATTITUDE, you prefer DT, fine with me, they are still better than the majority of crap that passes for music nowadays and deserve their rightful place among prog metal greats (being the originators of that style), but to each his own.  I might have become a DT basher, but not a DT Fan basher... yet !Wink
 
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Listen to "Under a Glass Moon" and then listen to "Divine Wings of Tragedy" no the album is not a complete ripoff, but the choppy guitar rythmns and the choruses are blatently taken from that song.  Maybe with different vocal patterns are different, there is an awful lot of matierial that Symphony X has taken from that song. 
 
I really like more "epic" and "softer" Symphony X songs like "The Accolade", "Lady of the Snow", and "Communion and the Oracle", but I really don't care for their metal songs like "Of Sins and Shadows" at all. 
 
I hate to break it to you, but I have heard Symphony X, I have five or their albums, and I can easily make a case why they are more metal than prog.

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[/QUOTE] Listen to "Under a Glass Moon" and then listen to "Divine Wings of Tragedy" no the album is not a complete ripoff, but the choppy guitar rythmns and the choruses are blatently taken from that song.  Maybe with different vocal patterns are different, there is an awful lot of matierial that Symphony X has taken from that song. 
 
I really like more "epic" and "softer" Symphony X songs like "The Accolade", "Lady of the Snow", and "Communion and the Oracle", but I really don't care for their metal songs like "Of Sins and Shadows" at all. 
 
I hate to break it to you, but I have heard Symphony X, I have five or their albums, and I can easily make a case why they are more metal than prog.
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My apologies, it is true that Symphony X are more metal than prog.  Would the category 'Symphonic Power Prog Metal' be suitable?  I think so, as they have power metal elements which DT don't have, and I know that power metal can be gruesome to some.  They have enough prog elements to be compared to DT though.
 
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