I never dare to evaluate a DT album, before I did not hear it at least five times. And this time it has been shown that it pays this reluctance. My first hearing impression was a bit negative because I had built up an expectation for the album, which was disappointed. I had expected after all the preliminary information with a sequel to Scenes from a Memory or Octavarium. That's not the album definitely. But after repeated listening reveals itself: DT put a very strong album which has only one flaw in my eyes: The Shattered Fortress. I think you can as a concept number, as Portnoy she devotes his alcoholism, also quit without at downgrading the piece to a medley of the previous pieces. Here me the proportion of new song passages is much too low. All other pieces use the DT Fan on the way he knows from the band, and it is for every taste, he is now aligned epic or hardness. Let's face it: DT can not produce bad albums. And the 6 cover tracks again clearly: DT are a per-fec-th rock band. Really disappoint me guys probably never. Because of Medley factor of Shattered Fortress there is however the point deduction.
