SYSTEMATIC CHAOS

Oh no! What a disappointment, Dream Theater turned death metal! When a couple of months ago the title for the brand new album, which was still a mistery for everyone, was officialised, most of the Progarchives forum users were full of doubts about it: "Systematic Chaos"; a title like that was This album is really disappointing for every prog lover, not of course for any DT fanatic, who will be enthusiast to hear once again the usual infinite repetitions of patterns and scales by Petrucci and Rudess....What's missing this time is the feel to it, which was what made the previous album Octavarium acceptable, in fact in that work there was much more interesting lyrics, much more orchestra,a wonderful title track and much more to say: all elements which are lacking at all in this particular album. The ridicolous and hardly believing thing about "Systemathic Chaos" is the total lack of musical personality from the members of the band: the evidence of this fact is the "Prophets of War" song, in which, once again, DT sounds exactly like Muse; cold lyrics, which, in the end, when the attempt to involve the listener is merely failed, space about mythology,fights against monters (The Dark Eternal Night) and Satan (In The Presence Of Enemies Pt.2), in certain point the listener is tempted to ask himself if this is a DT or a Cannibal Corpse album. The only two songs which could be more interesting for a prog lover are "Repentance" and "The Ministry Of Lost Souls" which, in spite of all the rest of the album, are quite intense even if surely not DT at their best. What a dissapointment after Octavarium have to deal with such an awful album like "Systematic chaos". The times of "Metropolis Pt.2, Scenes From A Memory" are definitely gone. I suggest this album only to DT die-hard fans.