FALLING INTO INFINITY

The most significant fact about this album is that Dt wrote this "ordered" by their label to make it more commercial and accessable. At least that's what I understood from interviews in those days. I wasn't depressed about these rumours, was a huge DT-fan (still am) so I still bought the album and haven't regretted it. Yet I have to admit that it's at least partly true. There a number of songs on this one that are not really DT and I'm not thrilled about those. And then we're talking about the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th 9th and 10th track. I don't even want to spoil any energy on those because they are below DT standard.

But on the other hand there are still a number of tracks left that are really excellent. Especially the epics Lines in the sand and Trial of tears belong to my all time Dt favourites. And also Peruvian skies and Hell's kitchen are very worthwhile.

In fact these tracks force me to still give it 4 stars but it's actually 3.6.