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Weirdly enough Six Degrees is my favorite Dream Theater album. Also, Chroma Key is just as good as anything DT has ever done. They should get Kevin Moore back.
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In retrospect, 6DoIT is probably the last album where they brought some interesting and legitimately good stuff to the table. Everything after that is rehashed metal or them just spinning their wheels. I haven't even heard the s/t they put out 2 years ago.
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I really liked Scenes from a Memory but nothing else ever stood out for me. Haken fill my prog metal needs anyway
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comes along bort posted:It was all downhill after they fired this dude: i cant help but laugh every time i read this.
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AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jan 22, 2016 |
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Jan 12, 2016 21:16
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Chromatic posted:I seriously can't stop laughing at this The kid riding the bird 
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Omnikin posted:I really liked Scenes from a Memory but nothing else ever stood out for me. Haken fill my prog metal needs anyway
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Jan 12, 2016 21:36
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Trees and Squids posted:Dream Theater can violently poo poo all over their legacy as much as they want, I&W and SFAM are still two of the best progressive metal albums ever made. Their legacy of playing very corny music has been forever tarnished
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Do Not Resuscitate posted:I have no idea what's supposed to be going on because the voice-over is drowned out by the music, but it sure looks lame as hell. DT in a nutshell Completely unrelatedly, Ctheilist just released a track from their impending full-length and it loving rips
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Jan 12, 2016 23:36
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Got VIP tickets for the upcoming Behemoth / Myrkur tour 
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Dream Theater blow goats but this was kinda amusing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=510om4YVkOY
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symbolic posted:My friend is madly obsessed with Haken. I listened to them once and they were okay. The thing that gets me is the radical random musical shifts present in prog metal like BTBAM and Native Construct. I just don't like them at all and I feel like they distract me from the parts of the song or album I enjoy. I'm generally very iffy at best about modern DT-esque prog metal (my prog metal tastes tend towards the more extreme metal-influenced stuff, or old school prog, prog/thrash, etc) but drat Haken can write pretty melodies when they feel like it. Atlas Stone in particular has a really lovely riff. Too bad their vocalist is dreadful and they feel the need to remind everyone that they love Gentle Giant by putting in sections that are pretty much exact (and very inferior) replicas of stuff from Octopus. Since DT got brought up, time for me to insert a little rant: My main problem with pure prog metal is that the music (at least nowadays) is actually pretty shallow - there's lots of sections which are just slow held chords and lame keyboard noodling, or unsyncopated chug riffs. I think DT, along with Conception and Symphony X, really started it, but there's lots of well-liked prog bands these days like Circus Maximus and Pagan's Mind who play entire albums of chug riffs and manage to con people into thinking that's progressive because of slightly odd time signatures. I'm easy to please but it's really embarrassing that "prog" bands these days have so little polyphony, complexity and melodic depth. I also would lay some blame on Porcupine Tree for the degeneracy of the scene, since them and Riverside made it ok to coast by on ~atmosphere~ and not bother writing riffs or having any of the intensity and drive that makes metal metal. gently caress, even lite-prog like Starcastle has more conviction than some of the lame-rear end prog metal these days. I do think that Japan still makes some pretty great prog metal, like Alhambra, but the vast majority of the stuff out there is so derivative, lacking in intensity... ugh. It pisses me off, speaking as someone who likes well-done prog metal quite a bit. I think the fanbase is to blame - you have people who grew up on DT and think that their banal and streamlined style is the alpha and omega of prog metal, and they tend to avoid any hint of intensity and harshness (and when they do try to "branch out" they sound like loving nu metal - btw I think that song may be the single worst thing I've heard in my life if you take the lyrics into account). Then they end up making music which is a pale imitation of DT (who weren't very good to begin with imo) and you get the horridly incestuous modern prog metal scene. Native Construct, as incoherent and garish and loving stupid with their literalist approach to concept albums as they are, at least aren't the 30,000'th DT-lite band.
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Pagan's Mind did have some pretty good tracks off their second and third album though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7cludyzsAw I always thought the singer was pretty good tough.
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comes along bort posted:Dream Theater blow goats but this was kinda amusing Oh my god that's one of the worst guitar tones. Edit: Oh, just got to the vocals. Ok yeah this is pretty funny and kinda cool they did this.
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Pagan's Mind have the saving grace of really, really lovely solos (on that album at least, before the guitarist died  ). That, and I really love the cheesy "spacy" synth tone. I don't hate them entirely but they are a pretty good example of the very streamlined pseudo-prog that DT paved the way for. My main problem with 'em is that, solos and occasional nice choruses aside, they're way too boring and straightforward - I prefer when such bands recognize that they're basically pop metal with some bells and whistles, and focus on writing good pop choruses rather than extending every song to 7+ minutes.
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As someone who listened to Dream Theater in high school, I feel obligated to listen to The Astonishing at least once when it comes out because it seems like a whole new level of pretentious wankery even for them. Not sure how long it's going to be, but it's stretched out over two disks so I'm going to guess about three hours. e: The site doesn't have song durations, but it does have this helpful map: 
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comes along bort posted:Dream Theater blow goats but this was kinda amusing Anything and everything needs more Barney.
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This thread seems to totally hate the new Abbath material but the whole album is streaming online now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzk0aGTvW64
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:As someone who listened to Dream Theater in high school, I feel obligated to listen to The Astonishing at least once when it comes out because it seems like a whole new level of pretentious wankery even for them. Not sure how long it's going to be, but it's stretched out over two disks so I'm going to guess about three hours.
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Vulture Culture posted:this wasn't dumb and awful when Xanthochroid did it but when Dream Theater try the same thing it's remarkably bad  The intrepid prog hero, no doubt.
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Jan 13, 2016 04:28
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will he be voiced by nolan north?
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Chromatic posted:In retrospect, 6DoIT is probably the last album where they brought some interesting and legitimately good stuff to the table. Everything after that is rehashed metal or them just spinning their wheels. I quite liked most of Train of Thought and Octavarium, but after that I completely lost interest.
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Defiant Sally posted:This thread seems to totally hate the new Abbath material but the whole album is streaming online now The thread is wrong and the new Abbath is killer.  I almost don't want to listen to it since I'm still waiting for the physical media I ordered to arrive so I can wear my Abbath wristband while listening to the vinyl, CD, and stream at the same time.
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Baroness - Purple download code, if you're into that Enjoy 
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Jan 13, 2016 23:53
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Can't quite make it out, can you post a higher resolution version?
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Man, I had no idea how much I needed Enforcer in my life.
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Chromatic posted:Weirdly enough Six Degrees is my favorite Dream Theater album. Also that DT trailer is incredibly funny
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I&W is one of my favourite albums of all time but I just can't get into any other DT stuff. I have every other album and tried listening to all of them hoping to get that same enjoyment from them but I just haven't.
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Blue Wher posted:So I found out about this Christian Alvestam side project the other day, which sounds a lot like a blackened version of 90s In Flames. Well, he could have chosen a nerdier band name, but that would have been hard. Svavelvinter is the name of a D&D (Drakar och Demoner) campaign (well, the first module) from the 90s. Where the campaign gained such fame, that the author 20 years later have written a fantasy series based on it. But hey, it works for Amon Amarth.....
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Cardiac posted:Well, he could have chosen a nerdier band name, but that would have been hard.
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skasion posted:Ctheilist just released a track from their impending full-length and it loving rips This is really good
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Dream Theater loving sucks. I automatically assume this:   
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I wish Petrucci/Myung/Rudess would jump into their own awesome project but I guess DT are all good friends and have fun together so I'm glad they're still getting paid for that.
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Speaking of that... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9AvCdRJmoI
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Vintersorg posted:Dream Theater loving sucks. They're the musical embodiment of the male ponytail.
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Those are some kickass glasses though.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Those are some kickass glasses though. I'd definitely replace the flame shirt with a Doctor Who t-shirt though
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Cardiac posted:Well, he could have chosen a nerdier band name, but that would have been hard. Amon Amarth are just following the precedent of all the older bands named after lord of the rings crap.
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