SMASH OR TRASH (DREAM THEATER - ON THE BACKS OF ANGELS)

[RJhog (Admin)]

Here is the new Portnoyless Dream Theater track.  What do you think?

 

Dream Theater - On The Backs Of Angels

 

Sorry that it's a link, but I'm not at home and can't fix up a player at the moment.

[Jon]

SMASH-Like the heavy geetar, seemed like it was missing a bit from the last couple albums. Mangini is not a bad drummer at all, it's a shame that "fans" are going to immediately dislike this because Portnoy is gone (for now). Outside of this song, like the album cover too, look very closely.....

[Scott]

Interesting, compare this cover with Supertramps "Famous Last Words", looks like the scissors werent quite sharp enough

[Scott]

SMASH - Finally feels like they are gettting back to being a great progressive rock and roll band and not the grungy/crunchy version heard on Train of Thought and Six Degrees...  Slowly but surely we are getting back to the best sound Dream Theater can produce! Portnoyless and all...

[Jon]

Hey, I like "Train Of Thought", to me that's their last stellar album. But that's ok, everyone has an opinion, sad that everyone's but mine is wrong. Have I mentioned that before?

[Scott]

no no, I like it too, I just felt it was little left of their center.  my take only....  Im very much am a IMAGES AND WORDS/AWAKE/FALLING INTO INFINITY/SCENES fan so you can see how that threw me for a loop

[Jon]

My top faves and "Awake" and "Train Of Thought", they seem to bit a bit more darker than their usual output.

[Scott]

Hey what happened to Electric Mary?  I just finished listening and my comment would'nt post...  Heres what I wrote in case your interested...

 

ELECTRIC MARY...

SMASH - Like the riffage as well, and that bass line puts this track over the top. Nice discovery! Want to hear more...

[RJhog (Admin)]

Sorry, I was experimenting and didn't realize you were listening.  Stay tuned this afternoon.

[Jon]

Electric Mary? I'm missing something here.....

[Gordon Williams]

To me, this is neither smash nor trash. Pretty decent listen, just not good enough for me to call it a smash.

On the subject of "Train Of Thought", the track "As I Am" from this release has some of the best guitar riffage you could ever want to hear, in my opinion.

This band has mad talent musicianship wise, but I find it difficult at times to listen to for extended periods of time. Not sure why, because again, the talent level is incredible.

[Niels (Mod)]

(Kind of)SMASH - I've only bought one DT-album, and it was the first one in '89( I think ), but I'll probably buy the new one, even though I definetly like Prog rock better than Prog Metal. It reminds me a bit of Yngwie Malmsteen. A very cool cover, indeed.