Progarchives, the progressive rock ultimate discography
Dream Theater - Train of Thought CD (album) cover

TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Dream Theater

 

Progressive Metal

3.62 | 2001 ratings

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website

praj912
3 stars The Best Album Metallica Have Ever Done

If Metallica delivered this album instead of the randomly pieced together and repetitive St Anger, the fans would've hailed and cheered the return of the kings of metal.

17 years after Puppets, DT return with everything Metallica should have delivered after ...And Justice for All. It's not very prog, but it's very metal.

I guess relearning and playing the Master of Puppets and Number of the Beast albums got DT into a groove that resulted in them writing this music. It sits somewhere between Puppets and the approach of the Black album (note approach, I hate the Black Album. There are shredding guitar riffs and solos from Petrucci, dynamic drumming rhythms from Portnoy and dexterous basswork from Myung.

LaBrie's vocals have improved and are listenable again (he sounds best when singing softly, Six Degrees and the Live in NY stuff was strained and annoying).

Ruddess' Keyboards are barely recognisable as keyboards, I can't see how he is getting satisfaction out of playing guitar on a keyboard. There is more that he can add.

DT have produced their metal album. Like most other bands labelled as 'Progressive Metal', they are a bunch of top notch musos playing metal with a keyboard player instead of a second guitarist. We want to hear this, but there is nothing very 'progressive' about it.

praj912 | 3/5 |

MEMBERS LOGIN ZONE

As a registered member (register here if not), you can post rating/reviews (& edit later), comments reviews and submit new albums.

You are not logged, please complete authentication before continuing (use forum credentials).

Forum user
Forum password

Share this DREAM THEATER review

Social review comments () BETA







Review related links

Copyright Prog Archives, All rights reserved. | Legal Notice | Privacy Policy | Advertise | RSS + syndications

Other sites in the MAC network: JazzMusicArchives.com — jazz music reviews and archives | MetalMusicArchives.com — metal music reviews and archives

Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.