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born_and_bled
Listed below are comments made by born_and_bled between Friday, 19th June 2009 and Wednesday, 24th June 2009.
Also how do you know it isn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Smith_(writer) this Sid Smith.
If it is the Sid Smith you mention, then he also writes sleeve notes for indie record labels (horrible genre).
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, does that mean he's an expert on diaries?
Yisrayl Hawkins has written numerous books regarding religion, does that mean he's an expert on the existence of God and possible armageddon?
As stated above, the review does not read well and if the reviewer did like King Crimson, they must have some knowledge of prog, aka Dream Theater, therefore why is the review so poor?
Why would it be spoof comment? Whether they wrote the book or not, it still reads like someone who's listened to prog for the first time and has never listened to Dream Theater
In the last few albums Dream Theater have used a heavier commericial sound compared to past works of like Scenes from a Memory, Images and Words and Falling Into Infinity. They obviously have progressed to be this way and you could say Awake and Falling Into Infinity showed signs they wanted to. Their whish to be a little heavier, darker, maybe even more easily accessible to the average metal fan seems to divide even their most die-hard fans. This progression is intentional one thinks, especially as they signed with Roadrunner as opposed to some one like InsideOut Music.
Count of Tuscany would not sound out of place on an older album and largely has a more prog-rock as opposed to prog-metal sound. Rite of Passage wouldn't be out of place on Train of Thought and is heavy, but with tracks like this now, one wonders whether they're trying to sound too cool. Wither is a nice ballad but not up there with the likes of Hollow Years, Anna Lee or Stay Another Day; and a Nightmare to Remember is in keeping with their more recent heavier feel. This sounds like I'm criticising them, when it's merely minor gripes with their direction. I would love their next album to be more like Scenes from a Memory in structure for example, but I still love everything this band has done and will do, because each musician is literally the best at what they do. In an ideal world, whilst La Brie is by no means weak, I would love to see Russell Allen from Symphony X vocal with this band.
This band are so techincally masterful, you have to listen time and time again to the album to take everything in and whilst this album is a little heavier, more commerical, it's still a better effort than Systematic Chaos. It is impossible for this band to make a bad album and because Scenes from a Memory and Images were so impressive anything they do will forever be compared back. Whlist this has more of metal sound, as always they stay faithful to their prog ideals and all the usual techincal instrumentals you could expect from Portnoy, Petrucci and Rudess are present. I will follow this band till I die and to really apprecaite anything they do, you really have to see them live.