METROPOLIS PART 2 - SCENES FROM A MEMORY

DT is doing a great job with this album, and to give a good example, I would suggest you listen to the song 'Beyond This Life' and skip to 8:26. Listen to the way the drums and the guitar are communicating, challenging each other with irregular and illogical time-measurements, but still in the end it all makes sense. The keyboard solo on top of it sounds silly, but fits preciselly as a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. At the end of this brilliant' part (at 9:05), all instruments are together again, and a sublime solo is followed, in which the guitar and keyboard play excacty the same, after which the song is rocking on with a great melodic tune/riff.

This is just one example, but all the other songs are that great. This is by far the best cd in my collection. The opening track 'Regression' might doesn't make any sense by opening an album with a accoustic lovely song, but the next song, 'Overture 1928', is even more a great experience: one instrumental song that brings all the upcoming themes of the album together. 'Fatal Tragedy' and 'Beyond this Life' are masterpieces on their own, with again very good lyrics, and even more astonishing instrumental parts. When the first song stops, you won't have time to take a breath, because the next is already about to begin! 'Home' and 'The Dance of Eternity' (that integrades a honkey-tonkey tune in heavy rock, in a way only DT can do) are the masterpieces of Act II. But beside these instrumental-violence, there are also very emotional and beautiful songs, that makes this album also accessible for those who do not care about great musicianship. Songs like 'Through Her Eyes' and 'The Spirit Carries On' just makes my flesh creep.

I can listen to this album over and over again, it's just that great and brilliant. (sorry for my English grammer errors :)