Quite a well written review. I've listened to this album a number of times and always tend to forget that Portnoy is no longer involved. I like the album a lot, a much better release than the previous Black Clouds & Silver Linings. Not going to say that album was bad, but it had like...2 songs that were great and the others felt like filler. A Dramatic Turn of Events seemed to flow better and only felt like it had 1 or 2 fillers, if that. I saw them during this albums tour and they performed far beyond what I would expect. Mangini did a pretty stellar drum solo, and LaBrie sounded better than he ever has.
I give two thumbs up for this album and hope to hear more from DT soon.
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