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11-11-2003, 12:47 PM
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Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Released today. Just picked it up at lunch and have listened to most of it. Very, very heavy and dark sound. The opening song "As I Am" sounds much better as a 7 minute plus song than the radio edit. Sounds great so far!
WARNING: This album contains extreme amounts of wanking, shredding, musical masturbation and excess. Not for the faint of heart.
JB
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11-11-2003, 12:56 PM
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"heavy and dark"
I love that combination! Can't wait to pick this up after work.
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11-11-2003, 01:10 PM
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11-12-2003, 09:25 AM
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Possible good news for you DVD-A owners.
From last night's chat with Mike Portnoy:
 ortnoy: Kevin Shirley mixed the entire ToT in 5.1 as well, so we're hoping to do a ToT DVD-A sometime early next year if the sales warrent it for Elektra
JB
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11-12-2003, 01:06 PM
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Holy shit! Is this album balls-to-the-wall or what, eh?
Lots of changing riffs, with Metallica-crunch and Fates Warning-angularity, all thrown into a bunch of 11 minute songs. Every track except the 2 minute ballad is an assault of heavy metal insanity.
Train of Thought is to Dream Theater as St. Anger was supposed to be for Metallica.
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11-12-2003, 01:58 PM
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My thoughts exactly Mike, except that I love St. Anger.
I have listened to the album all the way through twice, and my initial impressions are that this will be one of my favorite DT albums. I love the heaviness (does anyone else hear a Sabbath heaviness in some of those riffs?) I also heard a similarity in the structure of some of the lyrics on the second song to Metallica's Blackened! Very cool.
It's always hard for me to judge how much I will eventually like a song or album, but damn this is impressive so far. I wouldn't be surprised if "In the Name of God" ends up being my favorite DT song. Perfect sound with great lyrics.
Man, they can be heavy when they want to be!
DVD Audio would be too much!
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11-12-2003, 02:18 PM
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I kinda wonder how this record would sound in DVD-A.
There's just so much aggression and power, I don't what spreading it across 5.1 channels would do for it.
Now "Scenes From a Memory". That album was MADE for multi-channel listening.
JB
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11-12-2003, 02:48 PM
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I'm really liking "Endless Sacrifice", especially after it returns from the instrumental break. "Stream Of Consciousness" is also pretty cool. I'm still trying to gather an opinion on the rest....
Jason
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11-12-2003, 04:00 PM
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Lyrics have never been anything I particularly care about with metal bands, DT included. Except for Scenes From a Memory, where it's a story, I hear it as just a vehicle for one of their instruments, the vocals.
However, when they talk about something direct or political, like The Great Debate and In the Name of God, it is a bit clumsy.
I've heard bands that sound like they're just soloing and competing with each other, but DT ain't it, which is why I like them.
Endless Sacrifice is my favorite so far, but that's after only one listen...
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