Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater

Posted : 2 months, 4 weeks ago at Aug 25 7:24

Following my "discovery" of Dream Theater when I bought Black Clouds & Silver Linings, I started trawling through their back catalogue and bought Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory, a reference to the masterpiece track from their Images And Words album. Apparently DT were given full creative control for this, their fifth studio album. It is a concept album that deals with the story of a man named Nicholas and the discovery of his past life through hypnotic regression, involving love, murder, and infidelity as Victoria Page. As a story, it makes fascinating reading, a real tale with a savage twist to it that stretches from the present day back to 1928. Musically it is structured as two Acts comprising nine Scenes split over twelve tracks. The final tracks ends with static from a record...Read more

Rating : 10/10