Dream Theater

I liked it. Only listened once, and won't go back til I have the album. Nice and heavy, and a cool instrumental section towards the end. Kind of "whatever" chorus, but it is a lot better than the last few albums' singles like Constant Motion an A Rite of Passage, and so far, at least as good as On The Backs of Angels. Kick-ass drums are back, nice guitar tone, though it seems similar to ADTOE's tone to me. Decent enough keyboards, I'm sure there's better stuff on the album.

The song is definitely over-compressed due to to it being a stream online. OTBOA was the same way, and sounded 1000x better on the actual album. I expect the same for the new album.

I've listened to it once, and will listen again later. I thought it sounded quite average, on first listen. The drums sounded awesome, though 

Edited by zeqexes - August 05 2013 at 16:18

I liked it; seemed a little "DT by the numbers", but I don't personally consider that to be a bad thing.

I did like this song quiet a bit, and it didn't give me the impression I got with the last two albums of having a tired same sound from before... so I guess that's good. Still, they have certainly done much better before. I hope they have even better things on the rest of the album. Oh, and I did like better the new song that was released from Haken just today.

Really, what more can these guys do?  The only way they'd make any waves with this community or their fan base is if they had the balls to actually change their production techniques.  I'm talking super dynamic range, vintage instruments, no reverb, dry, warm in-studio sound.  Get Ethan Johns to produce.  If you want an example, check out the first few Kings of Leon albums.

The instrumental parts sound great- the band sounds tight and energetic.  But the chorus and verses are awful.  The lyrics sound like something from a new Disturbed single.  I still have hope for the album though because it looks like it will have some longer compositions.

Snow Dog wrote: Can't hear it in UK

Edited by Catcher10 - August 06 2013 at 21:07

I don't think DT sounds "bad"....Bad can still sound good, some have commented on the production. I connected my laptop to my system and it was OK, being of course probably 128k feed, maybe 256, so I will not comment on that...Its an online release, its gonna sound "bad".

As someone who hated their last album, I actually enjoyed the new song a decent amount.

I wasn't too crazy about the vocals myself, but that probably was just because the melody was kind of boring (at least it seemed so only listening once).  One thing I liked about the last album was that the melodies were good.  Like they actually spent some time on the melodies instead of just throwing something together quick that fit the chord progression.  The melody on this one sounds kind of amateurish and generic.  Again - only one listen so far, so my opinion might change on further listens, but...