No 'sabbatical year' for Dream Theater. Where the average prog rock band spends five years for a concept album, it takes this band less than two years to come up with a new record. Although, after the epic masterpiece on two CDs Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, the follow-up Train Of Thought, with only seven songs on a single disc, feels modest. This time the artwork is also in moody black and white,
… as if the band wants to indicate that they have worked more sober. The first two songs do indeed tend towards straightforward metal. Only in the third track Endless Sacrifice do we hear something of the famous dynamics and tempo changes, which make metal different from progressive or symphonic metal. What has remained the same is the energy and instrumental virtuosity, that of Dream Theater so ' make a beloved bond. With Train Of Thought they add a new chapter to an oeuvre that is starting to take on impressive proportions. (MS)more
