Symphony X - verses - Shadow Gallery

AtLossForWords wrote: Ed_The_Dead wrote: Heh... we might still be friends... (Demonstratively puts "Candlelight Fantasia" on - another great song! And its an ideal example of the Symphony X i like the most!) Candlelight Fantasia is one of Symphony X's best songs.

Lady of The Snow right be4 bed.... This is one of these songs were Russell really gives me some shivers ("In the Night, Shadows Dance"... etc etc)

That the main problem with the last Symph X album... 2 heavy! Me not liking heavy Symph X! Me prefer Symphonic melodic and emotional Symph X!

And MJR says that the new one is going to be even more heavy... hopefully in a way Accolade II was

Heh... we might still be friends...

(Demonstratively puts "Candlelight Fantasia" on - another great song! And its an ideal example of the Symphony X i like the most!)

W.Chuck wrote: yes like the beginning of Through the looking glass or The death of balance, but I think overall SG sound more like DT.

I think Shadow Gallery has a much better structure than Symphony X.  I think Shadow Gallery has a more similar sound to DT than SX does, but SX has a lot of songs that sound a lot like Under a Glass Moon from Images and Words.

Dream Theater slaughters both of these bands in all aspects of music.  Virtuosity, composition, variation, structure, and creativity being the foremost.

i still love Shadow Gallery, and Symphony X is alright.

Well... Xympony at least sounds a bit reasonable to Me...

not the blunt - Symph X is better and it is far more "everything" than SG

MikeEnRegalia wrote: SyX remind me of DT much more often than Shadow Gallery. There are passages in some SyX songs that are almost identical to passages of some DT songs ... gives me a feeling of deja vu everytime I'm listening to it.

Yes, but as you've mentioned; some particular passages, that are almost identical to D.T. 's.

I mean, Shadow gallery, as building up their style of composing and playing, more resembles D.T. With other words, when i listen to Shadow Gallery, i sometimes think "D.T. could have done such a song, if not S.G."

W.Chuck wrote: yes like the beginning of Through the looking glass or The death of balance, but I think overall SG sound more like DT.

Yes - Through the Looking Glass reminds me of Metropolis pt.1.

But which SG passages remind you of DT?

s1ipp3ry wrote: Theres no point in voting if you only know one of the bands

Thats a very obvious statement and the reason that im not voting in this poll

AtLossForWords wrote: What is so prog about Of Sins and Shadows?  The song lacks way too many elements of progressive metal.  The key signatures sounds like the generic open minor position with few modulations.  The time signature is the classic 4/4.  The song lacks clean diversity.  Symphony X really fails with the use or lack of clean guitars.  Songs that better define progressive metal would be Dream Theater's Home, A Change of Seasons, Metropolis Part I, and of course Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.  Pain of Salvation's Idioglossia, King of Loss, or Beyond the Pale are excellent choices as well.  I consider Shadow Gallery's Rain, I believe, or even War for Sale to be better representatives of progressive metal than Of Sins and Shadows.  Symphony X has very few songs that i consider progressive.

So prog is all about weird scales, signatures and mixing different moods and sounds as much as possible? That's a really confining definition if you ask me. IMO artists (especially prog artists) should be free to choose any kind of musical element if it suits the song. There are plenty of SyX songs that would meet your criteria - the entire album V: The New Mythology Suite for a start.

BTW: Listen to Post Rock, if you think that Symphony X are "boring" ...