METROPOLIS PART 2 - SCENES FROM A MEMORY

This is undoubtly a very "hyped" album. The reasons why I do not like this album is first of all the arrangements, some of the songs seem glued together like some "CollageProg". There are so many bands that have so much better arrangements than DT, for example Symphony X.

Also I do not like Kevin James LaBrie... ugh...

And the almost completely undynamic drummer Mike Portnoy ( Most overrated drummer in history). Yeah, so he can play many different time signatures, so what? He does not have the groove and flow of Nick D`Virgilio or Jason Rullo, and he does variations over four different drum fills that he can do, ugh... not impressing.

MOST IMPORTANT: The lack of melody in this album. I think the songs on this album suffers from bad melodies, poor collage arrangements, poor concept and lyrics as well as the worst instrumental of progressive rock ever ( The Dance Of Eternity ).

No, the only albums that I would have praised coming from DT is Images And Words which has great arrangements and Good melodies. And in fact Falling Into Infinity for the same reasons as IAW.