Author: Dream Theater

Brand: Roadrunner Records

Color: Multicolor

Features:

• DREAM THEATER
• R&P INTERNATIONAL
• INTERNATIONAL
• MUSIC

Format: Import

PartNumber: 016861799229

Release Date: 05-06-2007

Details: Amazon.ca Despite dubbing their ninth album "Systematic Chaos," this New York quintet's complex musicianship seems executed with forethought and mathematical precision instead of randomness, as the title suggests. Even the feverish poetry and disconnected haiku of a song like "Repentance," the fourth song in drummer Mike Portnoy's suite on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, seems calculated to both enthrall and frighten with a lethal mix of minor chords, mumbled spoken word, cold brittle keyboards, and buzzy Pink Floydian vocals. The zombie chorus (comprised of 50 Dream Theater fans) of "Prophets of War" echoes that wet sodden paranoia with an anxious and anthemic warning of a daunting future if things don't change, showing these prog rock avatars to be as socially conscious as they are inventive. This disc stretches the limits of Dream Theater's earlier canon, as they continue to concoct breathless musical anagrams while subsuming some of the territory that Metallica used to occupy with their bleak mediations, doomsday prophecies, and thrashy bashing guitars. This is an unnerving record for unnerving times --Jaan Uhelszki Product Description Dream Theater

UPC: 016861799229

EAN: 0016861799229

Model: 016861799229

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood