Dream Theater

Rating: 5 out of 5

An artery-clogging feast of prog-lesterol

Warning: Do not attempt to ingest this in one sitting. You are not Adam Richman, and this is not Man v. Tunes. What we have here are 10 of U.S. prog titans Dream Theater’s 12 albums packaged together, at the bargain price of £40. And it’s a feast of prog for your pound. ‘Why rush?’ seems to be DT’s motto, making each album as rich and full (in the artistic and how-much-can-we-fit-on-a-CD sense) as they can, examining every nook and cranny of every song and filling them with incredible virtuoso musicianship. Of the albums, ‘92’s Images And Words and the recovering alcoholic voyage of ‘02’s Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence are the best. But all are as majestic, complex and unexpected as metal gets. A prog fan’s wet dream (Theater).

Download: ‘Metropolis – Part 1: The Miracle And The Sleeper’.

For Fans Of: Metallica, Opeth, Rush.

—Nick Ruskell