Black Clouds And Silver Linings

[Liverslapper]

I like. The Shattered Fortress is bad ass. Anyone has any thoughts?

 

[Enemy242]

haha wow i had no interest in checking this out since I only like one old dream theater album but the part at 4:27 is blatantly ripping themselves off. It sounds exactly like The Glass Prison at around 3:56. out of ideas much?

 

[Nevermorian]

The whole beginning section is proof for two things:

1. Keyboard playing can ruin a good guitar riff in seconds
2. Thomas Haake > Mike Portnoy

 

[ShadowsWithin]

haha wow i had no interest in checking this out since I only like one old dream theater album but the part at 4:27 is blatantly ripping themselves off. It sounds exactly like The Glass Prison at around 3:56. out of ideas much?

umm you do realize thats the point this was the last song in a series of songs Portony did on every album, Glass Prison was one of them, most of the songs in there are from the other songs in his series.


^oh an keyboard can only add to a song unless it's really poorly done.

 

[CaptainDuckroll]

The Best of Times blatantly rips off Rush's Spirit of the Radio. JUst skip ahead to like 3:00

 

[Altitudes]

I like this album, but it doesn't really hold my interest. Only listened to it once through though. As far as I am concerned, Dream Theater hasn't put out a bad album.

 

[Calamitas1786]

I love it. Plain and simple.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

Someone told me theres a song on it that is comprised only of riffs from other DT songs, whats that one called?

 

[Calamitas1786]

The one Steve posted. There's a few new riffs in there.

 

[Enemy242]

umm you do realize thats the point this was the last song in a series of songs Portony did on every album, Glass Prison was one of them, most of the songs in there are from the other songs in his series.


^oh an keyboard can only add to a song unless it's really poorly done.

oh I had no idea, I don't follow them at all. I just thought they were being lazy or trying to recycle cool shit haha

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

Well they ARE lazy and recycle shit, have been doing it for well over a decade.

That being said, the album is too bad, they are simply confused.
They are trying to hard to be "heavy" and "dark" these days, which doesn't work in many cases with Labrie's vocals. He just isn't a heavy type of singer. So Portnoy is trying to add his " heavy" vocal style, which just plain sucks. Never let that man near a microphone ever.

 

[azal]

terrible, terrible album.

The Count of Tuscany has some of the most homo-erotic lyrics ever put to music.

 

[stefan86]

Didn't even care too look it up considering what they've doing lately.

 

[Sentient 6]

The Best of Times blatantly rips off Rush's Spirit of the Radio. JUst skip ahead to like 3:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ydWBzd522s

please kill me now, that was torture , I would rather have painful dental surgery than ever listen to that again

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I am absolutely not, under any circumstances, posting in this thread.

 

[Captain Beard]

Nor am I.

 

[Chromatose]

I considered it, but then realized I'd be much better off not posting.

 

[azal]

the new clutch album is awesome.

 

[Jeff-Loomis-fan]

a whole new level of gay-music has emerged

 

[Calamitas1786]

You can barely post in English, you have no say here.