Just can't get into guys. Being a Longtime DT fan and listener, actually since their first album came out, they just have gone a direction I'm not in to at all. It's just too commercial and mainstream, even for todays standards. There's too many other bands out there that are now playing and performing circles around these guys where I've just lost interest in their new material. I could tolerate any and everything before the Astonishing (it actually started with their Dream Theater album) but since then, not my thing. Magini has taken this band in a very bad direction playing his simplistic riffs, beat, fills, etc. The gusy has no heart and creativity where you actually hear some emotion in his playing. He almost sounds like a drum machine. LOL.
Even when they go into their off tempo/beat structure of their songs, it's like stuff you'd learned in the 8th grade with first exposure with something different then 4/4, 6/8 and 3/4 time signatures.
I don't know, maybe if I never heard them before I could tolerate it more but as it stands, just can't do it. Everything seems like a rehash of everything they've done before and it just grinds on me. Ok enough of my bitching as I've done it at least one other time and its time to just let it go and enjoy everything else that's out there.