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Dream Theater vs. Symphony X

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Poll Question: Which one is better?
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By far Dream Theater
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2021 at 13:30
It says "You have already voted in this poll" , but I don't remember what I chose. EmbarrassedLOL

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DT all the way!
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Romeo is also a riffmaster. I can understand finding such shredding boring, yet dat damn riffs!
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

oh dear God...

easily Symph X... Divine Wings alone bitch slaps any album DT ever did... but  how easy..  

like deciding between geting blown and getting castrated. A singer who can actually sing..  great songwriting over 'look at me' playing. 

Zero f**king contest man...

LOLLOLLOL  Seriously though, I think Romeo is a pretty boring "watch me shred" guitarist.  And their range is pretty narrow compared to DT which has its pluses but they got one-note a long time ago.  Russell Allen's sheer charismatic presence makes all the difference, especially when compared to LaBrie. Who let them down even on the albums they did write well like Images & Words or Awake.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:21
oh dear God...

easily Symph X... Divine Wings alone bitch slaps any album DT ever did... but  how easy..  

like deciding between geting blown and getting castrated. A singer who can actually sing..  great songwriting over 'look at me' playing. 

Zero f**king contest man...
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Falling into Infinity is indeed one of their weaker ones for me, but it still has some good moments. And some more good moments on the demos album indeed. They could have done something even better if they had used some of those songs. And the Metropolis 2 epic, it would have been great if it had been finished like that. I'm not fond of Medley's, but I wouldn't mind if they did a Medley of the album using those musical passages.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Not a huge fan of either band although I'm not very familiar with Symphony X. However, I think a more evenly matched poll would be Dream Theater vs Queensryche. Even then I'm pretty sure DT would win.


Queensryche does not stand a chance against DT, too many generic and a couple of really bad albums. In my opinion DT got only one bad album, their very unastonishing concept album from three years ago.

Three years ago already? Wow, how time flies. I'm not a DT expert but I think falling into affinity is pretty lame too. 


not lame at all, when it came out I for one was surprised how different it was and I blamed it on the line up change, a new keyboardist. The strange thing is that if you listen to the FII demos, they left out some very good songs and there was an epic that would become later their 1999 concept album. LOL

The DT albums I rarely pay attention to these days are SDOIT, Systematic Chaos (so much showing off on this one) and BC&SL (kinda tired of it). ADTOE is uneven, and Rudess is all over the place...

my favorite DT is the one with Kevin Moore. Big smile


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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Falling Into Infinity is probably in my top 3 favorite Dream Theater albums. Some fantastic songs on that album. Quite underrated IMO.

There's some good stuff on it but I just found it to be very inconsistent. Maybe it would have been improved with a different song order. YMMV.

Minus one or two songs, I think it's still a highly enjoyable album. Much better than the Astonishing!!! LOLLOL
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Can we assume those who put neither are not prog metal fans or not necessarily?


Most probably, yes. Yet some of them might prefer the Fates Warning school or more modern prog metal.
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Falling Into Infinity is probably in my top 3 favorite Dream Theater albums. Some fantastic songs on that album. Quite underrated IMO.

There's some good stuff on it but I just found it to be very inconsistent. Maybe it would have been improved with a different song order. YMMV.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote King of Loss Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2019 at 18:03
Falling Into Infinity is probably in my top 3 favorite Dream Theater albums. Some fantastic songs on that album. Quite underrated IMO.
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Not a huge fan of either band although I'm not very familiar with Symphony X. However, I think a more evenly matched poll would be Dream Theater vs Queensryche. Even then I'm pretty sure DT would win.


Queensryche does not stand a chance against DT, too many generic and a couple of really bad albums. In my opinion DT got only one bad album, their very unastonishing concept album from three years ago.

Three years ago already? Wow, how time flies. I'm not a DT expert but I think falling into affinity is pretty lame too. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2019 at 17:36
Can we assume those who put neither are not prog metal fans or not necessarily?
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Dream Theater by far. End.


End of what? It is quite predictable that DT would win this, yet what is the particular "End" that you mean? Are you the ultimate decision maker of this?
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Dream Theater by far. End.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2019 at 06:34
Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Not a huge fan of either band although I'm not very familiar with Symphony X. However, I think a more evenly matched poll would be Dream Theater vs Queensryche. Even then I'm pretty sure DT would win.


Queensryche does not stand a chance against DT, too many generic and a couple of really bad albums. In my opinion DT got only one bad album, their very unastonishing concept album from three years ago.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2019 at 06:13
Not a huge fan of either band although I'm not very familiar with Symphony X. However, I think a more evenly matched poll would be Dream Theater vs Queensryche. Even then I'm pretty sure DT would win.
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