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IMAGES AND WORDS

Dream Theater

 

Progressive Metal

4.31 | 3169 ratings

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mono
5 stars By far Dream Theater's best album. Heavy, progressive, extremely innovative and technical. This album is certainly the one that pushes DT fans to prefer Kevin Moore over Ruedess...

The album's strong points: - No weak songs nor fillers, like we've seen in some recent albums. - No copies, all fresh and new, straight out of the band's imagination - Perfect musicianship. And by that, I mean that every instrument is exactly where it has to be, Kevin Moore is for me the star of this album, with astonishing solos in Take the Time, and superb arrangements in every song. Portnoy, IMO, will never do as well as he did on this album : inspiring drumming, sometimes very close to the song's lyrics and always in phase with the mood. No overplaying, with superb rythmics. Petrucci.... oh god, at this exact moment, I'm litenning to his solo in Another Day... marvelous, it's one of the rare albums where this great virtuoso doesn't pull endless shredding solos. Brilliant. Labrie always does a good job in studio, and this album suits him well.

Flawless. 5 stars.

mono | 5/5 |

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