BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS

Dream Theater

Progressive Metal

3.46 | 1784 ratings

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Raphitray

Maybe this album is the light that will eclipse the black cloud over the head of that band....

Sorry for grammar, I'm French

Well first of all, I'm actually A big fan of two kind of music : Metal and Progressive and all their sub-genres.... As A Metal fan, I like this album, but as A Prog fan, I don't know what to think about it.....While we are in the world where the band don't want to be identified in a specific kind of music, Dream Theater always cry to everyone that they are a Progressive band, Prog Nation, One Nation Under Prog whatever...and I think that we can easily notice that in their music : They want to show us that they can play faster than anyone and finally, DT seem to be a band with no inspiration

Anyway, there's some good songs in this album and that give me hope for the futur of this band

My favourite songs : 1- The Count Of Tuscany : a good original one that we can easily place in the legendary songs of DT; Great final but poor lyrics 2- A Nightmare To Remember : Goth ambiance, a nice metal one

The album in General :

- A Rite Of Passage : The single, in my opinion the most bad song in this album

- Whiter : Pretty OK

- The Shattered Fortress : The final of The AA suite.....a remix of all other parts and for me....a big mistake; sounds O.K. anyway but this is not the final that I anticiped for the AA suite...

- The Best Of Times : A Song that Mike wrote for his father....Great Intro....some guitar riffs that remind me Images and Words....Lyrics seem to be emotional but in the end, everybody could say that from his father so....

In the End.....:

Good Album With Up and Down; not for everyone....

Raphitray | 3/5 | 2009-8-17

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