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Bite_The_Pain
I don't listen to this album often, but it's fine. Just needed to trim some of the songs off.
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nutthugger
реально в ахуе сидишь просто, не можешь поверить в этот абсурд, психоделическое ощущение
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OslamPhoenix
This album is fine, just too long. Plus prog snobs are of course gonna despite this album as it's not your average metal.
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mrmichel0927
Listening to the band's entire discography through for the first time. What happened with this record? It's an absolute slog to get through. There were only a few tracks even worth it.
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mrmichel0927
Listening to the band's entire discography through for the first time. What happened with this record? It's an absolute slog to get through. There were only a few tracks even worth it.
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DonMatt447
I don't know if I prefer DT doing the same as Ayreon with a 30+ songs album or 7 songs with many longer than 10 minutes. Anyway, at least this is more ''scrobbable'' than all others
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DaddyRamaSenpai
Didn't like it in my first listening, but it grew on me while listening to it along with the lyrics, which helped me to see the bigger picture (pun kinda intended). It's probably better than the self-titled and Falling Into Infinity, only because it's more consistent than those two.
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angusscream
I Don't know... I just opened my heart to it and it resonated. It engrossed me. I had to give it a few more spins to really appreciate it. What an epic, emotionally draining and fascinating Journey it is.
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DaddyRamaSenpai
Same. At first I hated it and now it's dangerously entering into my TOP 5 from DT
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ricardoa7
There is something really astonishing about this album. I heard it when it was released and I'm only listening to it again today. While a lot of it isn't offensively bad, it's so bland, boring, and uninspired that really makes me wanna stop listening. The sum of its parts it's way worse than each part. And of course, there are the bad parts, lots of them. And the concept and lyrics, oh my... I hate to be this harsh, but this is one of the worst albums I've ever heard. Good thing is the next album can't be worse than this.
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ihatepretending
I thught SFAM had the most ridiculously cheesy concept in my collection, but then Petrucci wrote this.
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Nitrocoma
The reason I didn't give it lower was because the concept itself is super interesting, at least in my opinion (albeit the ending is kind of awkward). And the music isn't terrible, just not as good as the Dream Theater I know, they strayed away from what they were good at mostly and it made a more "meh" sound. My opinions only.
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XavirorivaX
Éste álbum destronó a "When Dream and Day Unite", ahora "The Astonishing" es el que menos me gusta. :\
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LaserLobotomy
Horrible abomination of an album. Portnoy was 100% right, they needed a break.
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Tonatiuth
This album is my least favorite so far, started as a conceptual album like Scenes From Memory but ended up being a Rock Opera that does not have remarkable tracks, none of the songs can be enjoyed by itself, you have to listen the whole album to have a regular taste. Several songs are fillers with no reason to exist and the virtuoso side of Dream theater is completely missing, they created huge expectations of this album but is not even close to the taste I have about A Dramatic Turn of Events (a masterpiece in my own opinion), their first release without Portnoy.
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MyMediaMusic
Relistening to this album - again - and my conclusion is that this is a magnificent album. Those who are slagging this are being unfair and overly critical. This album is amazing, reminds me of the better moments of ELO and Pink Floyd's The Wall. There are so many genres touched on in this music, it is quite an incredible and unmatched listening experience. To those who don't like this album, you'd be well-served to listen to this album again - and again - if you have to.
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