Dream Theater "Systematic Chaos" details

I hope it's better than the last album.  Let's see if they are going to come to South Florida again.

kazansky wrote: What the hell is DT doing in Roadrunner anyway ? Looks like it would be another ToT, or probably harder...

Another Prog Fan who plays MTG! That makes 4 of us!

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magnus wrote: Hmmm.... for some reason, that album title made me think of Meshuggah  I mean... I don't mind Dream Theater being a bit heavy, but, I don't want them that heavy oh well, let's just hope for the album to release soon

I'm going to agree on Johnobvious' opinion about the title: irrelevant, until further information on content (say song/track names). For instance, Train of Thought would yield a pretty progressive or somewhat intelligent label to the album, as a title...but now that we know what lies whithin, it's our very meaning of "heavy", "metal", "shred" and etc. What concerns me more is the album's structure, resembling too much Octavarium's attempt to reproduce Dream Theater's formula, in sliding soft melodies, large epics and straight-forward leanings in their metal influence. Roadrunner will sound a dubious label to promote them, with the heavier tendencies their bands mark, but it also doesn't seem "narrow-minded" - I mean, there's Opeth, right? - and there is something of an "independent spirit" mentioned. It's got all the elements that'll instigate a success, but unfortunately the same goes for the opposite, so basicly the only thing remotely significant in this post is joining Mr. Sanchez, hoping the album won't suck.

I'm just hoping they utilize the orchestra again.  As for the title be thankful they didn't name it Portnoy's Complaint. 

MajesterX wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: I don't like the sound of that album name. =/ How low of you. Talk about judging a book by its cover

Actually he's only judging the cover.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: MajesterX wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: I don't like the sound of that album name. =/ How low of you. Talk about judging a book by its cover Actually he's only judging the cover.

Very true. I don't believe anybody ever said "this album is going to suck because of the name"... they simply gave their opinions on the name, which is really the only thing we know about the album so far and thus the only thing that people can even give their opinions on. It's kind of odd to see people being offended by it, really, though certainly not unexpected.

As for the album, I'm looking forward to it. Another 25 minute epic? Sounds like it will, at the very least, be interesting!

And to the people who are worried about them being on Roadrunner: this is Dream Theater, they were already on a label that tried to pressure them into making a certain type of music and it resulted in arguably their weakest album (Falling to Infinity) and almost caused the breakup of the band. They've made it painfully obvious throughout their career that they won't let that kind of thing happen again, so I don't think there's anything to worry about here.

Falling into Infinity is better than Octavarium and possibly Train of Thought, IMO.

I don't like it when Portnoy uses words like skull-bashing, or chrunching or whatever to describe their riffs. Slipknot has skull-bashing riffs too, so I hear....

^ don't forget Anna Lee (bad) and Trial of Tears (awesome).

The T wrote: stonebeard wrote: Falling into Infinity is better than Octavarium and possibly Train of Thought, IMO. I don't like it when Portnoy uses words like skull-bashing, or chrunching or whatever to describe their riffs. Slipknot has skull-bashing riffs too, so I hear....    At last somebody agrees with me. A good album with one of DT's best tracks ever (Lines in the sand) but a weak, almost awful song (take away my pain) and the bad just let me breathe.

Fallin Into Infinity is a good album with a few really bad songs (though I like Just Let Me Breath)

I'm quietly optomistic, for the moment (later I'll be loudly optomistic), that this will be a very good album.