METROPOLIS PART 2 - SCENES FROM A MEMORY

You know, I didn't appreciate Dream Theater as a superb fu***' best band of the world as a myriad of crazy fans, though that album was one of the best things I heard about rock'n'roll in the last 10 years. "Scenes From A Memory" is a very natural album (opposing another Dream Theater's works like "Awake") and you can take notice of DT's influences: Yes (melodic vocals on Strange Deja-Vu and Fatal Tragedy), Emerson Lake & Palmer (The Dance of Eternity seems like a new Tarkus), Metallica, Megadeth and mainly Rush (every song had a little bit of Alex Lifeson). Another thing: Jordan Rudess is the best rock keyboardist of the world! For me, he is the only keyboardist that may humbles a guitarist in a rock'n'roll band (I'm a guitarist), maybe Keith Emerson would disbank him. Though Rudess had a impressively fluid, smooth and fiery style that really inchants me. It was great to see him with Greg Howe or Steve Vai. John Petrucci is always the same (fiery 846 notes per second and great rhythm), but he develops some great acoustic guitar passages ("Beyond This Life"). John Myung is a monster, Mike Portnoy shows how he was influenced by Bill Bruford and Carl Palmer and James LaBrie is a ornament. GREAT ALBUM! I recommend not just for prog-fans, but all kind of music listeners.