OCTAVARIUM

The thing is about this album is that you could say that Dream Theater has started to drift more into mainstream metal, with tracks like 'I Walk Beside You' and 'Never Enough' to me sounding not prog enough. But on the other hand you have the title track 'Octavarium', which is an outstanding song and it being 24 mins long plus split into five sections, its certainly prog. John Petrucci recently said that one of his favourite bands as the moment is muse and in 'Panic Attack' and the opening riff in 'Never Enough' has a musey kind of feel to it. What i'm trying to say is that this album gives me mixed messages about the bands future direction in music. But overall a very good album.