Artist: Dream Theater
Label: Elektra Records
Release Date: 1/29/02
Average Rating: 5
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Title: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Artist: Dream Theater Label: Elektra Records Release Date: 1/29/02 |
There are currently 6 Reader Reviews of this album.
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Submitted by Batara Zahidi (5/7/02):
I just bought this album two days ago and was going totally insane because I had to choose one out of three albums that I wanted. Besides Dream Theater the two other albums were Soilwork's Natural Born Chaos and Alas. I decided to choose DT because I am a big fan of this technical band. After listening to it, I think it is fucking awesome. I own five other DT album since Images and Words and I think this album is the third best album behind Images and Metropolis 2000. Briliant work from all members of DT.DT RULESSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Submitted by Llelas (3/25/02):
THESE 2 CDS ARE SIMPLY THE MOST AMAZING DREAM THEATER RECORD EVER, AND THE MOST AMAZING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE I HAVE EVER HEARD FROM A ROCK BAND IN MY LIFE. I CAN'T IMAGINE THIS GUYS GETTING BETTER THAN THIS.IT'S SICK. THIS GUYS ARE PLAYING LIKE NO ONE HAS EVER BEFORE. HAIL THE ALMIGHTY DT!
1000 SKULLS!
Submitted by Elas (3/17/02):
One of the best DT albums of all time. I don't dare to say the best of all because every DT album is different on its own way. However, i find this album FUCKING AMAZING!!! This masterpiece is already in my all-time top 10. I love this thing, man. All the songs of the first disc have the most amazing instrumental sections I have ever heard from the band. Portnoy is sick, Rudess is crazy, and Petrucci is possessed. La Brie's vocals are better than ever ( He added effects to his voice for the first time). Every track of the first CD is amazing. The "Fourth Degree" is kinda Toolish sometimes and is heavy as fuck.The second CD is a totally different story. It seems almost like a different band is playing it. Honestly I think the second CD was not necessary. It would have been more mysterious and original if they had just released the first CD. Don't get me wrong, the second CD has its moments, but it also has some cheesy sections. For me, the album is 5 DEGREES of total metal mayhem ( 7-string nu-metal included, which is great), and a unnessesary sixth degree of turbulent show-off.
BUY IT!!!
Submitted by TenTonHammer (3/10/02):
Like almost every good album, I had to listen to this one more than 5 times to get the music. The first time I listened to it, it sounded like a Falling into Infinity 2. Of course, after a more careful litening, I found out that this is the true Dream Theater. I mean, they can't get any better. That's it. What the hell are they going to record next? Probably a bunch of ballads, 'cause on this one they push the pedal to the metal in almost all the songs. Oh, this is my review for the firstdisc, I was forgetting the second CD.I think the second CD is very lame. Who needs a 45 minute song??? I think that no one expected another epic from Dream Theater. They had made me happier with every new album, and it could have been the same for me if they hadn't released the "six degrees". It has very cheesy stuff and very gay lyrics (I'm a huge fan and I don't dare to say it). The intro sounds like a video game soundtrack. It's not bad, but I think it's unspired.
I honestly think that progressive music is great, but I also think that for its same substance, it restrains the musician. I guess that DT would always have to write a song with a odd time signature and crazy stuff. However, this album has great metal songs. It has the normal DT cheesy ballad, but it also has great POWER NU-metal influences and vocal effects.
Damm, its hard to review a DT album. You either like it or you don't. I hope they get more metal as time passes. That would be their only probability of surviving.
Submitted by ORF (2/15/02):
Let me begin by saying that sometimes, as you are most critical of yourself... you are often the most critical of your favorite band. Case in point, 1997's release by Dream Theater: Falling Into Infinity. An obvious departure from what made this band so captivating which was as disappointing as the BOSTON RED SOX 2001 Season. Enter the ambitous SIX DEGREES OF INNER TURBULENCE. Honestly, plenty of reasons to be skeptical. The last album, Scenes From A Memory, was so successful that Dream Theater regained all they had lost with the disastrous '97 release. Would major-label Elektra force them to go POP? Answer: NO!SIX DEGREES is the most ambitious and well crafted epic release since... dare I say Rush's 2112? 6 songs, 96 minutes, and one well crafted title track that takes you on the weirdest journey into mental illness since Nicholson graced big screens in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" Okay - about the album... Track #1 "The Glass Prison" starts off right where Scenes left off, with that eerie record player that leaves you with static... and enter the heaviest DT track since "The Mirror"! This song is 13 minutes of DT chops and riffs that prove once again, they are a metal band. "Blind Faith" shows James LaBrie's increasing involvement with song writing. This 10-minute track starts of quiet and spacy, but in true DT style, rocks out in the middle with more Mike Portnoy drum fills than you can shake a stick at. #3 "Misunderstood" is arguably the catchuest track... one that will leave you humming the chorus, despite the fact that we have a pace changing 9 minute song on our hands. #4 is "The Great Debate" - a fairly intelligent song that toes the line between the good and evil of Stem Cell Research. Sounds like something Neal Peart would have written in the early '80s (had this been an issue then), with its scientific overtones. Contrary to the review by HEL... this song is intended to indentify the argument... rather than choose a side on the issue. Honestly, I thought that was the bravest attempt on the whole album. It doesn't shovel the shit or one person's political view at you... no... it adresses both sides of the argument... and the technical expertise of DT helps to show this with constant time and mood changing of the music. Not to mention the sick riffs and excellent solos in this one! #5 is "Disappear"....a wicked-spacy post-Kevin Moore era track with LaBrie's vocals and Jordan Rudess' ominous keys at the forefront. One of those songs you want to listen to alone in the dark. Finally, on disc 2...the title track "Six Degrees..." Here, DT carves the song into 8 parts about 6 characters dealing with varying elements of mental illness. It almost comes off like a narrarative of their lives... and showcases every element of DT. The hard pounding of "War Inside My Head" to the subdued "Goodnight Kiss"... all in all a 42 minute track that shows what Dream Theater is capable of and pulled off to PERFECTION. If you had enough patience to finish this review, you have the patience to ENJOY EVERYTHING THIS ALBUM HAS TO OFFER. A TRUE CLASSIC.
Submitted by SilentGhost (2/10/02):
I think Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is one of the best Dream Theater albums in the band's history. Any kind of influences and music styles, with some metal waves, the classic progmetal style, a new dark way and five musicians with all the energy for to give you what you want, MUSIC!!!!!
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