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by Tom C
Mon Nov 08, 2021 5:47 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World
Replies: 17
Views: 948

Re: Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World

I really liked their last album, but I like my DT being unapologetically, overtly proggy. I want more "Dance of Eternity" and less "I Walk Beside You" and I got that with this album. Of course it sounds like DT, but it's also got more of the classic DT syncopations and rhythmic manipulation that has...
by Tom C
Mon Nov 08, 2021 5:26 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World
Replies: 17
Views: 948

Re: Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World

I don't expect anything from them. I'm not asking them to break all the rules and do something no one has ever heard before. They're going to sound like them, and that's fine. In general, that's actually what we want. It's just not, for me, as exciting to listen to an album when I could correctly p...
by Tom C
Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:02 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Best of lists ?
Replies: 17
Views: 999

Re: Best of lists ?

1. Terra Odium - NE PLUS ULTRA
2. Terra Odium - NE PLUS ULTRA
3. Terra Odium - NE PLUS ULTRA
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by Tom C
Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:59 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Fates Warning -Long Day Good Night is fantastic
Replies: 22
Views: 1485

Re: Fates Warning -Long Day Good Night is fantastic

I've fully come around to this one. It's never happened that it took this long to fully absorb a FW disc. There's a lot of more mellow stuff on this than previous. However, the general consensus is Ray is the star here, and I'd agree. It's cool to see people coming around to this. I was getting con...
by Tom C
Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:25 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Fates Warning -Long Day Good Night is fantastic
Replies: 22
Views: 1485

Re: Fates Warning -Long Day Good Night is fantastic

The magic is back for me. Everything that I love most about the band is brought together in a way they haven't done, to me since Parallels. From the Zonder like hi-hat work, to the layered clean guitars over dissonant distorted guitars to the ethereal vocal melodies and harmonies. I'm not sure wher...
by Tom C
Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:14 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Fates Warning -Long Day Good Night is fantastic
Replies: 22
Views: 1485

Fates Warning -Long Day Good Night is fantastic

The magic is back for me. Everything that I love most about the band is brought together in a way they haven't done, to me since Parallels. From the Zonder like hi-hat work, to the layered clean guitars over dissonant distorted guitars to the ethereal vocal melodies and harmonies. I'm not sure where...
by Tom C
Fri Nov 06, 2020 12:19 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Fates Warning- Long Day Good Night
Replies: 18
Views: 1221

Re: Fates Warning- Long Day Good Night

Ray's album took everything good about Fates (and Redemption), and packaged it in a tighter package that was easier to listen to. The new Fates album is good, but it's too long and too indulgent . The good parts get swallowed up by how long we have to wait to get to some of them. So in other words ...
by Tom C
Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:49 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Thoughts Factory- Elements
Replies: 28
Views: 5642

Re: Thoughts Factory- Elements

I just have to give you a hard time about the distinction between “progressive metal” (the genre of bands al sounding like Dream Theater/Vanden Plas/Fates Warning/Seventh Wonder...) and “progressive metal” (the genre of ever evolving and challenging music). [This is a fun, nostalgic trip down memor...
by Tom C
Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:23 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: New Horizon's End
Replies: 15
Views: 2887

Re: New Horizon's End

Prog metal lives! Wow this is nice to hear!!!!
by Tom C
Thu Aug 22, 2019 5:19 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: Best album with Lance King on vocals?
Replies: 10
Views: 1979

Re: Best album with Lance King on vocals?

Best album for me, hands down 'Legend of the Bone Carver'. Best vocal performance overall is on the song "Prisoner of Pride" from 'Ten More Tales'
by Tom C
Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:11 pm
Forum: PM: Core
Topic: New Arch/Matheos..
Replies: 35
Views: 5530

Re: New Arch/Matheos..

Really looking forward to this.