Two years after the controversial Octavarium, Dream Theater are back with Systematic Chaos, the ninth labor of their twenty-year career.
Considered the founder of progressive metal - a genre that mixes progressive rock and heavy metal whose genesis goes back to album Images And generally Word 1992 - the band in the U.S. confirms Systematic Chaos, passion for experimentation and for the choices decidedly anti-commercial, making a whole album and aggressive, extremely generous in life (over seventy minutes of music in just eight tracks diluted) in a tortuous sounds of chaos on and furious, sometimes repetitive and not immediately assimilated.
The beginning, given the powerful In The Presence Of Enemies (Part 1) brings us to the Valley in five minutes mighty roaring chase instrumental guitar-bass-drums followed by the entry of well-balanced vocalist James LaBrie , and paves the way for one of the most important songs of the album, the engaging Forsaken with vigorous guitar solos that burst sull'inquietante opening piano melody for a warm and convincing, followed by the first single "Constant Motion, with its tribute to Metallica sang clearly similar to James Hetfield.
And yet battery-style fireworks, guitars and keyboards violent and evil and distorted voices in The Dark Eternal Night, Songs of a dark and heavy album, the first to grant us a quiet moment with ballads Repentance that, with soft tones and whispering voices that run - in a sound reminiscent of Pink Floyd - is the fourth piece of the saga that Dream Theater have given to alcoholics anonymous.
Continue to the end of the album, with epic choruses and vigorous Prophets Of War - that reminds a bit 'too much of the Muse - and the yearning melody of the beautiful power ballad The Ministry Of Lost Souls, moving text of guitarist John Petrucci and sudden changes of atmosphere that lead to an absolute ground final long before reliable conclusions to In The Presence Of Enemies (Part 2) with its more than sixteen minutes, alternating with melodic moments acids that converge towards a long finish orchestra.
Continue to the end of the album, with epic choruses and vigorous Prophets Of War - that reminds a bit 'too much of the Muse - and the yearning melody of the beautiful power ballad The Ministry Of Lost Souls, moving text of guitarist John Petrucci and sudden changes of atmosphere that lead to an absolute ground final long before reliable conclusions to In The Presence Of Enemies (Part 2) with its more than sixteen minutes, alternating with melodic moments acids that converge towards a long finish orchestra.
album A violent and difficult with which to familiarize yourself slowly and after several plays, much more effective in recent episodes and several tracks that stand out with vivid and enthralling, it indicates an incipient fatigue and a poverty of inspiration (which is manifested in the clear trend recycling) which will hopefully be only a passing episode showing the Dream Theater to its former glory.
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