I know there is already a thread discussing this cd but it is so big a full now I just started this thread to give my opinion on this album.
Anyway, to start, I will get right to the point and tell you I love this album. Why? Well, the songs on this album are a lot like songs like The Glass Prison and Beyond this Life. Some people think it sounds too nu-metalish, but I dare to say the guitars sound nothing like nu-metal, they are pure metal, with plenty of technicality. At first it the songs may seem like a guitar riff fest but each track except the 3 min ballad "Vacant" are 10-11 mins. As you delve deeper into the mins of each track more keys and technicality come forward for the listener to hear. Each song "progresses" and never gets boring. The one song that kind of doesn't is the opener "As I Am" in which the very boring and droggy chorus is repeated way too much IMO. I would like to add that I didn't really like 6DoIT very much either except The Glass Prison and I thought The Great Debate was ok once the "news voices" at the first few minutes finished. Also, some complain of LaBrie rapping in the song "Honor thy Father", I would like to add that it is brief and doesn't sound too terrible as some portray it to be. Although I keep waiting for him to say at the last line of rapping "cause it's my perogative". Strangely enough in the song "This Dying Soul", there is a point in the song where the riff sounds JUST like a riff out of The Glass Prison, and to add LaBrie says "I can't break out of this prison all alone". Very weird that they would reuse this stuff but except that line in the chorus and the one part with the riff it is totally its own song. Another huge reason I like this album is that LaBrie sound a LOT better than usual on this album, I usually get annoyed of his voice when listening to other DT songs and is the reason I usually can't listen to DT too long. Not so with this album. This album is pretty much like the music from their heavier songs, but every song is of this type except one. To conclude, the only reason I see at someone not liking the album at all is if they are not a fan of heavier DT songs.
Anyway, to start, I will get right to the point and tell you I love this album. Why? Well, the songs on this album are a lot like songs like The Glass Prison and Beyond this Life. Some people think it sounds too nu-metalish, but I dare to say the guitars sound nothing like nu-metal, they are pure metal, with plenty of technicality. At first it the songs may seem like a guitar riff fest but each track except the 3 min ballad "Vacant" are 10-11 mins. As you delve deeper into the mins of each track more keys and technicality come forward for the listener to hear. Each song "progresses" and never gets boring. The one song that kind of doesn't is the opener "As I Am" in which the very boring and droggy chorus is repeated way too much IMO. I would like to add that I didn't really like 6DoIT very much either except The Glass Prison and I thought The Great Debate was ok once the "news voices" at the first few minutes finished. Also, some complain of LaBrie rapping in the song "Honor thy Father", I would like to add that it is brief and doesn't sound too terrible as some portray it to be. Although I keep waiting for him to say at the last line of rapping "cause it's my perogative". Strangely enough in the song "This Dying Soul", there is a point in the song where the riff sounds JUST like a riff out of The Glass Prison, and to add LaBrie says "I can't break out of this prison all alone". Very weird that they would reuse this stuff but except that line in the chorus and the one part with the riff it is totally its own song. Another huge reason I like this album is that LaBrie sound a LOT better than usual on this album, I usually get annoyed of his voice when listening to other DT songs and is the reason I usually can't listen to DT too long. Not so with this album. This album is pretty much like the music from their heavier songs, but every song is of this type except one. To conclude, the only reason I see at someone not liking the album at all is if they are not a fan of heavier DT songs.
