A CHANGE OF SEASONS

This album is full of cover tracks and medleys... I think they're good covers on the songs they do (specially the big medley), but the highlite of this album is definitely the main track 'a change of seasons'... This song is a great listening experience for metalheads and proggers in general... I find the intro amazing specially when the keyboards come in with that gentle sound that compliments petrucci's reverberated guitar... when the main riff finally kicks off you get the feeling that its gonna be an amazing journey and I think it actually is each time I hear that song... The song has quite some great instrumental moments as well as deep singing and intricate rythms and time changes.. that's one of the things these guys are very good at.. A lot of people find octavarium a better song than this one but I personally don't agree with that... The ending is also very good even though La Brie's singing is a bit annoying... I find this track to be a wonderfully achieved effort by one of my favorite bands and really consider it a masterpiece of prog... 5 stars