“All that people want Metallica to do is sound like Metallica,” guitarist John Petrucci recently told Prog magazine. Since when did fans know more than the musicians whose work they claim to love? It’s an obsession that singer James LaBrie considers “toxic”.
And yet they remain perplexed by the levels of scrutiny and criticism that greets just about every facet of their operation from lyrics and vocals to production, and, fundamentally, direction. More than three decades after their debut, Dream Theater show no sign of running out of ideas. Such was its grandiosity that the sci-fi plotline became a novel. 2016’s love-it-or-loathe-it The Astonishing was the biggest, boldest thing that they’d ever created – no small feat. Although Dream Theater didn’t win the award, within two years they were shortlisted once again (losing out for a second time).įive albums into the Mangini era, Dream Theater remain skilled at the throwing of curveballs. Released in 2010, their debut with Mangini, A Dramatic Turn Of Events, generated a first ever Grammy nomination.
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