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Psychedelic Paul 
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I'm a big fan of Dream Theater, but I'm not familiar with Symphony X, so my vote goes to Dream Theater.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 25 2019 at 06:13 |
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Not a huge fan of either band although I'm not very familiar with Symphony X. However, I think a more evenly matched poll would be Dream Theater vs Queensryche. Even then I'm pretty sure DT would win.
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Cristi
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Posted: September 25 2019 at 06:34 |
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Queensryche does not stand a chance against DT, too many generic and a couple of really bad albums. In my opinion DT got only one bad album, their very unastonishing concept album from three years ago.
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King of Loss
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Posted: September 27 2019 at 10:38 |
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Dream Theater by far. End.
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Odvin Draoi
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Posted: September 27 2019 at 16:15 |
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End of what? It is quite predictable that DT would win this, yet what is the particular "End" that you mean? Are you the ultimate decision maker of this? |
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 27 2019 at 17:36 |
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Can we assume those who put neither are not prog metal fans or not necessarily?
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 27 2019 at 17:38 |
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Three years ago already? Wow, how time flies. I'm not a DT expert but I think falling into affinity is pretty lame too.
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King of Loss
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Posted: September 27 2019 at 18:03 |
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Falling Into Infinity is probably in my top 3 favorite Dream Theater albums. Some fantastic songs on that album. Quite underrated IMO.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: September 27 2019 at 18:07 |
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There's some good stuff on it but I just found it to be very inconsistent. Maybe it would have been improved with a different song order. YMMV.
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Odvin Draoi
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Posted: September 27 2019 at 18:17 |
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Most probably, yes. Yet some of them might prefer the Fates Warning school or more modern prog metal. |
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King of Loss
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Posted: September 27 2019 at 18:19 |
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Minus one or two songs, I think it's still a highly enjoyable album. Much better than the Astonishing!!!
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Cristi
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not lame at all, when it came out I for one was surprised how different it was and I blamed it on the line up change, a new keyboardist. The strange thing is that if you listen to the FII demos, they left out some very good songs and there was an epic that would become later their 1999 concept album. The DT albums I rarely pay attention to these days are SDOIT, Systematic Chaos (so much showing off on this one) and BC&SL (kinda tired of it). ADTOE is uneven, and Rudess is all over the place... my favorite DT is the one with Kevin Moore.
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Posted: September 28 2019 at 13:31 |
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Falling into Infinity is indeed one of their weaker ones for me, but it still has some good moments. And some more good moments on the demos album indeed. They could have done something even better if they had used some of those songs. And the Metropolis 2 epic, it would have been great if it had been finished like that. I'm not fond of Medley's, but I wouldn't mind if they did a Medley of the album using those musical passages.
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Posted: September 28 2019 at 23:06 |
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DT
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micky
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Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:21 |
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oh dear God...
easily Symph X... Divine Wings alone bitch slaps any album DT ever did... but how easy.. like deciding between geting blown and getting castrated. A singer who can actually sing.. great songwriting over 'look at me' playing. Zero f**king contest man...
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Seriously though, I think Romeo is a pretty boring "watch me shred" guitarist. And their range is pretty narrow compared to DT which has its pluses but they got one-note a long time ago. Russell Allen's sheer charismatic presence makes all the difference, especially when compared to LaBrie. Who let them down even on the albums they did write well like Images & Words or Awake.Edited by rogerthat - September 29 2019 at 07:41 |
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Odvin Draoi
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Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:47 |
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Romeo is also a riffmaster. I can understand finding such shredding boring, yet dat damn riffs!
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A Crimson Mellotron
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Posted: August 25 2021 at 13:24 |
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DT all the way!
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Cristi
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Posted: August 25 2021 at 13:30 |
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It says "You have already voted in this poll" , but I don't remember what I chose.
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Posted: September 25 2022 at 23:23 |
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By far Dream Theater
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