BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS

It was by far the biggest disappointment for at least the last 10 years of prog music releases. I might be over-graduating for some people but this is my opinion. It has nothing new to offer to prog music. The same ideas from previous albums re-organized, long meaningless tracks, pure copy of Metallica's bad days. I really tried to give it a second and a third chance but it is simply awful. And just so you know, I am a huge fan of Dream Theater, I haven't missed a concert here in Greece from 2000 until today, but if they come again soon, promoting this album, I am not going. Their ideas finished just before the release of "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence". All the albums including this one, have some good moments, not even an entire good song, and that is it. Didn't even worth the download. Stay away...!!

P.S.1 Portnoy's voice sucks.. Why does he have to sing so much? P.S.2 "Images and Words" is simply the best album ever written in Rock music generally(in my opinion always) There is never going to be another masterpiece like this. Not even by Dream Theater themselves.