OCTAVARIUM

Dream Theater

Progressive Metal

3.68 | 2209 ratings

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dethics

DT makes some good songs, but that's about as good as it gets...

The Root Of All Evil: They took the main concept of this song from a previous album, and if your familiar with DT , you get the idea...3/5 stars.

The Answer Lies Within: Another soft ballad that can go along with other soft ballads DT has made 3/5 stars.

These Walls: Was made for general radioplay, a bit rock/poppish. 3/5 stars.

I Walk Beside You: Is more like a wannabe U2 song...I'm giving this song a 3/5 with a bit of spite.

Never Enough: Sounds like Muse, but then they throw their DT stuff in it. 3/5 stars.

Sacrificed Sons: Sounds like 6 degrees of Inner Turbulence, though they did this sound better on 6 degrees. 3/5 stars.

Octavarium: Ahh...They stole the beginning from Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond, that's honestly just a bit sad. The rest of the song sounds like a bunch of their influences mushed in one big song that they called Octavarium, but for whatever it's worth 4/5 stars since it was better than most of the previous tracks on this album.

This album leads me to think that they've ran out of ideas...From using previous material, redundant ballads, trying to make that "radio-playable song", sounding like U2, sounding like Muse, and then again sounding like previous material...What is a bit of a shame is that they tried to make an epic song starting off with Pink Floyd's epic Shine on your Crazy Diamond....

The music here is a bit jaded; it's not their best, yet it's not their worst...Hmm....Their lack of creativity made them steal ideas; I'll cut to the chase:

35 total points

23/35=65% =(Round that up to 70%) and you get 3 Stars.

dethics | 3/5 | 2007-8-8

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