Dream Theater may not even be any different?

This question I asked myself when I read some reviews after the first hearing, which had ripped the album in the air. I think it may very well be that, because here are the five proved that they certainly can make it to the other tour and they present the listener largely eingänige songs.

For me the biggest highlights on this album are the very soulful, but never soppy ballad "Hollow Years" (but which is exceeded by the version on the Budokan CD / DVD to lengths), "Burning My Soul" (DT tried it again the hard way; like), the instrumental "Hell's Kitchen" (though not "In The Sand Lines" (the song grooves at the same level as the "Ytsé Jam" and "Stream Of Consciousness", yet indescribable)! easy) and "Trial of Tears" (the best song on the album). Except for the exceptions "New Millennium" and parts of "You Not Me" that appeal to me rather less, Dream Theater in 1997 filed a really solid album. Sure, it does not come close to "Awake" or "Images And Words". It's just too different. And despite - or perhaps because - of otherness of this album, I find it very good. Not my favorite album of Dream Theater, but I hear it I always like to.