IMAGES AND WORDS

One of the greatest albums in prog that i've come to. The music is quite complex and in some songs mellow. I for one perfer the heavier ones. The soft DT ballads don't attract me but luckily for me there isn't so much of those on Images & Words. The heavier, more complex and in my oppinion more prog ones are nothing less than a masterpiece. Only weak points in I&E (again in my oppinion) are the two ballads: Another Day(2.) and Surrounded(4.). But the rest of the album is pure gold. No filler, just amazing compositions and virtuosity in musicanship. In comparison to other DT albums I would rate better only Metropolis: part 2. Scenes From a Memory. Portnoy and Petrucci are amazing, terrific, great, magnificent. The emotions that are in their playing and compositions are overwhealming. This album (well... Surrounded and Another Day not included) is what I think real progressiveness is in music. Wonderful music.

Well, this album is simply a masterpiece in prog metal.

One of the greatest albums in progressive music.