[atlantaprog] Re: Prog metal

UncleEggsy@xxxxxxx wrote:

Every so often the planets will align just right and I'll be in the mood to listen to a Dream Theater album. Yeah, they're about as total and complete a techno-flash overkill band as you will ever hear on this planet and I wish to heck they would ditch the Steve Perry Jr. vocalist, but their whizzy gymnastics can be fun on occasion.

As much as I try, I really can't get into Dream Theater at all. I feel like they never really GROOVE. However, Liquid Tension Experiment has put out 2 CDs that are fantastic! The 2nd one I think is the best one. The groove on the opening track, "Acid Rain" is just great. Just watch the speedomoter when listening while driving! The funny thing is, take Dream Theater, remove the vocals, and put Tony Levin in as bass player instead of John Myung, and you have LTE (Petrucci, Rudess, Portnoy, and Levin). They are everything (IMHO) that Dream Theater are not. THey are slightly less metal, but still very much in that DT meets Steve Vai kinda vein.

Alex F/Brain21


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