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 Topic: Dream Theater's new album also on vinylPosted: 07 Jun 2009 at 4:18pm |
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Just a quick reminder to those who are into progressive metal...
Around June 20th, Dream Theater will release their new album "Black clouds and silver linings". There will be various options to choose from, including vinyl (two LPs on 180 gram audiophile vinyl) and a deluxe boxset including 3 CDs, 1 DVD, the vinyls and some other collector's stuff. Me, I have ordered this special edition... waiting for when I will set up my vinyl rig (next year?)... |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2009 at 2:19am |
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I had never actually properly listened to an album by Protools Theater before, so I decided to give them a try today, by auditioning their "Octavarium" album from 2005 at a music store. I was listening with headphones and what immediately struck me was an excessively dominating, loud, flat and fatiguing drenched-in-distortion guitar sound. On top of that there was the usual and not surprising excessive compression and loudness-maxmized production. All the songs sounded the same. I got ear fatigue after a few minutes and had to turn the "music" off. The silence that followed was the best thing I have heard in a long time.
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Posted: 31 Oct 2009 at 9:19am |
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"Octavarium" is easily one of their worst (both as musical content and sound-wise)! Only the 20 minutes suite at the end is fine...
Get "Images & Words" or "Scenes from a memory", those are the good ones (and knowing your ears, especially the first one as it sounds "genuine")! Edited by Lucabeer - 31 Oct 2009 at 10:53am |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2009 at 12:45pm |
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What about the first album, "When Dream And Day Unite", is that one any good?
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No, I don't like that album very much. Not as creative as their following ones, and the singer was still Dominici... a guy who tried very hard to sound like Bruce Dickinson... and failed. So, the band replaced him with James La Brie in the following albums.
My best ones are: 1) Images and words: very creative, very progressive, very "genuine sounding" and never pretentious 2) Scenes from a memory: more elaborated, more creative; a bit "too much" at times, but still an incredible tour de force, a great "concept album" 3) Awake: the follow up to Images and Words... almost as good 4) Train of thought: their hardest album... but you might judge it as being too "Pro-Tooled". Anyway, excellent modern metal, if you like Linkin' Park you will enjoy it 5) Systematic chaos: completely overblown and crazy... but fun. Again, very Pro-Tooled 6) Six degrees of inner turbulence: the second CD is IMHO great, the first isn't. Again, very overblown and pretentious 7) Black Clouds and Silver Linings: their latest one, an OK album (also available on vinyl) 8) Octavarium: a derivative effort 9) Falling into Infinity: boring! 10) When dream and day unite: more boring! |
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