That's why I want to get rid of the same at the start of a thing: the Good Mike Portnoy has gone. Not because I want to attest DT by a second spring. No. The popular ex-drummer of DT has left a ship that might not exactly was about to fall, but has already run properly due. By that I mean that you can expect from DT no depth and juvenile freshness longer and also a long time could not. At least when plates as Metropolis, Awake and Images and Words are not the reference. The new board has' as many reviewers have-already noted aptly very many moments that quite well on Awake could shine. That's true. And I'm grateful to have no bad Schnulzballade as 'Wither' skip.
I very much welcome the partially new timbres and sound robes. In fact, I have a feeling that Jordan Rudess also attacks times deeper into the keyboard box and thankfully have become less pathetic by the new songs.
What most pleases me: over these alcoholics suite of M.Portnoy is finite. No permanent reprises and recitations from previous albums (contrary to all opinions, I personally find 'The Shattered Fortress' from its predecessor really bad). Dream Theater dare to be a little spherical without sounding like her own imitation and again. A good decision is also the - to thin hardness - enforced on past albums translucent.
I want to come to an end. The new album can be bought. Really. Dream Theater reinvent itself not new and it's all familiar, but strangely, I have the impression that Portnoy's departure (and by that I founded, finally my statement at the beginning of the review), a niche has made clear for ideas and designs that may already long it waited to be drafted.
Why only 3 points?
Because I a band that has been around for years in the business, no 5 points give, simply because they play at a high level. Dream Theater fans will certainly not be disappointed, but not surprised. One could describe it as: He who hears the plate has the feeling of an old friend zuzuhorchen one tells a story that sounds similar and predictable as many before. Would you listen to an old friend? Me, yes.
