Best of the Two
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Topic: Best of the Two
Posted By: Matt
Subject: Best of the Two
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 3:12pm
Opeth myself ------------- Matt |
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 3:21pm
Opeth by numerous country miles. Never been a DT fan, and I'm afraid I'll never become one .
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Posted By: NJCat_11
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 3:30pm
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Hmmmm..... this thread looks oddly familiar.
Perhaps I've seen it on a different website.
 Went with Dream Theater then, and I'll do the same here as well. ------------- http://www.chess.com/members/view/NJCat?ref_id=1432587 - Come and play me at Chess.com http://www.youtube.com/user/NJCat?feature=mhw4 - Homepage |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 3:46pm
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I go with the more evil one. Opeth. Yeah both suffer from Prog pretentions but Akerfeldt is still more metal at heart, I feel, and Opeth is more progressive in a good sense and way less dull. Dream Theater is a rather badly watered down metal band to my ears. If DT would get down to the metal roots and forget about this Prog nonsense I think it would be better. Opeth has a wicked quality that I don't think DT will ever have (maybe if Petrucci embraced Satan and Petrucci, Myung, and Portnoy sacrificed Labrie who can give real metalheads the giggles, in a ritualistic ceremony, and ate his entrails it would give them the power to start making edgy music). Of course I am not endorsing such an act, but I just feel that DT lacks bite. -------------  - -brutalogan
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Posted By: Sleepwalker
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 3:47pm
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Opeth is one of my favorite metal bands and I'm not a fan of Dream Theater in the least. Obviously voted for Opeth.
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Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 4:13pm
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I think Images and Words is better then my five Opeth albums (not combined), but Systematic chaos....nope cant listen to the hole thing without getting bored, bought Awake today so I might listen to that for now I realy like Opeth also have there 5 albums from Blackwater Park til Watershed soon i will go backward (moonwalk) to their more death/black metal albums, looking forward too listen to Stil Life |
Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 4:14pm
| well DT made me a metalhead so this time (on a Metal site I have to vote for them) |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 4:46pm
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Both are fantastic.... but it would be a crime for me to go against Dream Theater on this one. Opeth is one of my favorite bands as well.
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Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 5:37pm
| Opethhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! |
Posted By: DeathOfSeasons
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 6:25pm
| I honestly hate Dream Theater and I find Opeth to be quite overrated, but I guess I'll go with Opeth as some of their albums alright. |
Posted By: Sckxyss
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 11:27pm
You're hilarious on this site.  Anyway, I go with Opeth as well. Both for a preference to darker metal and just out plain quality/consistency. |
Logan wrote:Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 12:28pm
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DREAM THEATER!!! It's totally metal, totally prog, totally wonderous union of the genres and I like it!
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 12:30pm
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Dream Theater for me. I don't do growls. ------------- 
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Posted By: dean
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 12:38pm
Are Dream Theatre Metal? I thought they were a Prog band.  -------------  |
Posted By: kshskang
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2010 at 11:34pm
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Though I used to be a huge Dream Theater fan a few years back, I can't really enjoy their music as much I used to. Ever since they released Octavarium, I just basically... stopped. Now, Opeth is still one of my favorite bands of all time and I can always go back to them despite how many times I've listened to them. Though Akerfeldt is basically beginning to take control of the whole band (especially with the departures of Lopez and Lindgren), Opeth still continues to make great music imo and they have a special place in my heart  . |
Posted By: Metalbaswee
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2010 at 8:21am
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Dream theater for me. I grew up with their music.. Nothing against Opeth. DT is just 0.00000000000001% better for me. Metaledit: Since this is a metal related poll, i'm moving this to the poll section. Bas. -------------   |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 8:20am
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DT here. Love both bands though, but DT has a special place in my heart, since they are the reason why I turned back to listen progressive rock, progressive metal and eventually extreme metal.
Hail the kings. -------------   
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 6:03pm
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Dream Theater is actually interesting most of the time.
Which is why I voted for them.
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 7:39pm
| I love Dream Theater and I like Opeth, but it's a huge difference. DT for sure. |
Posted By: Harry
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 9:12pm
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Opeth by quite a stretch. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 4:23pm
| Opeth don't do anything to me. Dream Theater popularized the prog-metal genre and released the essential 'images and words'. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 5:23pm
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Definitely Opeth for me; I have tons of respect for Dream Theater for their abilities, although I find their songwriting much less enjoyable. Favourite style of metal right now would be avant metal with growls, but I have to thank Opeth for making me enjoy growls. -------------  
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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2010 at 5:31pm
I'm off to do something really old man Aussie and thats mowing lawns Rather play music but this is the best time to put on Phil Collins's later albums when the mowers on full throttle. ( Can't hear it then) ------------- Matt |
Posted By: bsms810
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 8:58am
| Wow opeth by so much it is untrue... DT don't do it for me. Even though im a prog metal nut and have repeatedly tried Dream theater thinking i must be missing something.... theyv just never clicked for me |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 9:32am
| Voted Opeth (fan enough to have had the @ logo tatooed), but I like DT also... I just prefer Opeth ! |
Posted By: deathlifereborn
Date Posted: 13 May 2010 at 8:16am
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Opeth! My favorite band too lol
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 14 May 2010 at 1:32pm
| If I ignore their first couple of albums which are fairly average IMO then I'll go for Opeth. |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 15 May 2010 at 6:47am
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I went with DT, although I love Opeth, too. This doesn't really have anything to do with my favorite style of metal, as such. I just think that DT are more important and have had a bigger impact in prog metal than Opeth has. Also, had there been no DT, there would be no Opeth - �kerfeldt himself has stated that it is because of DT that Opeth sound the way they do. I love both bands and both bands have made songs that rock my world and songs that don't do anything for me. I just like DT a tad more overall. ------------- 
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Posted By: poslednijat_colobar
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2011 at 7:32am
| Dream Theater |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2011 at 4:04pm
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This was very hard to choose between, but I had to go with my first metal band, Dream Theater. Since they were both progish in a way, the only seperating factor was that without DT, for me, there would be no Opeth, or metal for that instance. -------------  |
Posted By: martindavey87
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 5:34am
| Voted, and then realised this thread is almost a year old, but whatever. Dream Theater all the way. |
Posted By: Andyman1125
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 6:59pm
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Oh, this is hard. My two favorite bands of all time..... but I have to go with Dream Theater. One, Dream Theater was the first prog band I ever got into, and from Dream Theater I got into Opeth. They virtually created Prog metal (along with Queensryche and Fates Warning), and they were by far the most successful of the 3. They themselves were a major influence on Opeth, thereby making Dream Theater better, by the width of a hair, in my mind. ------------- http://bit.ly/kZR7BC" rel="nofollow">  http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - My Bandcamp
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 7:14pm
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I agree, accept for the fact that they created prog metal. I believe that started w/ 7th Son IMO.
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Posted By: Andyman1125
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 7:35pm
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Yea, that got the ball rolling but what we know of as prog metal today essentially started with DT ------------- http://bit.ly/kZR7BC" rel="nofollow"> http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - My Bandcamp
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 7:39pm
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More popular prog metal started with DT
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 7:48pm
Ha! Both of you are wrong!  Here's my chronological evolution of prog metal's key releases... Dream Theater popularized prog metal, but saying they began it is quite a stretch. Here we go... 1985 - Watchtower's Energetic Disassembly  1986 - Queensryche's Rage For Order  1988 - Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son  1988 - Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime  1989 - Fates Warning's Perfect Symmetry  1992 - Dream Theater's Images and Words  Of course, there's more but without these albums, traditional prog metal as we know it wouldn't exist IMO. ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2011 at 8:03pm
| Operation: Mindcrime is the first case of badass prog metal |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 3:56pm
I was almost right with 7th Son. ------------- |
Posted By: Andyman1125
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 4:09pm
Watchtower is more jazz thrash metal though.... ------------- http://bit.ly/kZR7BC" rel="nofollow"> http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - My Bandcamp
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 6:28pm
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^ One could argue that Watchtower's highly technical approach to thrash metal was the beginning of progressive metal. Of course, it's more subtly progressive than, say, Images and Words, but I've always considered it the first prog metal album (and I'm sure I'm not alone in this). ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 6:31pm
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I prefer Dream Theater far over Opeth. Sure, they've been weak lately, and Opeth is more consistent, but Dream Theater's best work far outdoes anything Opeth ever did, IMO. Funny, because I consider myself more of a death metal fan than a straight-up prog metalhead.
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Posted By: Andyman1125
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2011 at 6:57pm
Yea, I'll agree with you on that one ------------- http://bit.ly/kZR7BC" rel="nofollow"> http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - My Bandcamp
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Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2011 at 10:14am
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Of course Opeth!!!Mikael Akerfeldt learned me to hear Death metal. |
Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2011 at 7:28pm
Opeth wins That's... good ------------- http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2011 at 5:07pm
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cannot stand DT sooo, opeth  -------------  
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2014 at 1:58am
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I think Opeth is a way better band but I generally prefer the style of Metal that DT performs ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2014 at 2:01am
Prog Metal was created by Rush but they didn't want to be confined by it. So they are Prog Metal and Prog Rock in one ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2014 at 2:06am
What????
 ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2014 at 9:22pm
| Dream Theater easily. They are actually my favourite metal band, while I don't like growls, so that leaves a lot of material from Opeth out of my liking... and very often when Opeth doesn't use growling, they completly forsake metal. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2014 at 9:25pm
| Oh, I just found out, it seems this is a multiple vote poll... I think I just voted twice for Dream Theater (I thought I hadn't voted yet, since the page didn't tell me I had already voted, but when I voted again it still gives me the option to vote), however, this means the result for this poll isn't really reliable. |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 3:05pm
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That would be Opeth for me. I used to adore Dream Theater, but lost my burning passion for their music around the late nineties. They still release high quality material, but to me the magic is mostly lost. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 3:33pm
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Dream Theater is one of those bands I generally prefer not to talk about out of fear of hurting someone's feelings. But, if I had to say something, against all rules of political correctness... I'd say their music used to be something relatively fresh back in the 90s and it was by far the only good thing about it. Today it's not even that. Avoid. Opeth, on the other hand, used to be a mindblowing band. Now it's just good. I wouldn't compare the two, though. They are somewhat connected, yes, but Opeth is rooted in extreme metal and prog folk rather than symph prog and heavy metal, like DT. ------------- http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 4:33pm
| Still love 'em both, but if I'm honest DT doesn't continue to excite me the way Opeth do. |
Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 7:29pm
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That's the thing. So many people, whose opinion and taste in music I greatly respect, love or used to love DT. Like you, Chris, or Jonas. Because of that, I tried to like them many times, I listened to them and suffered for, as I imagined, my own good... I bought their t-shirts and slept in them, then listened again - nothing. I went to a SPA to cleanse my body of toxins and tried once more. Nothing. I banged my head against the wall repeatedly. It didn't work. I started to watch soap operas to sharpen my emotional side while sprinkling my head with vanilla oil. Still hated them afterwards.... I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE RIGHT AND I AM IN THE WRONG HERE  I feel lonely... maybe if I had friends, the love for DT would come too? But even you, people on the web, don't like me. I don't like me! And I don't like DT!... Suddenly a feeling of pure unity, coming from this overwhelmingly harmonious wave of negativity, overcomes my mind. It changes me. It makes me lucid. I see now. The truth is... I just can't stand LaBries' stupid voice.------------- http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 7:39pm
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Opeth wins for me, I do love Dream Theater as well, but Opeth has more 5-star albums imo. ------------- If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2015 at 11:34pm
Man I miss prog geo |
Posted By: Dobbie03
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 1:16am
| Opeth for sure. |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 1:53am
Oh my B. are you alright?  ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 5:18am
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Dream Theater for me, although I like Opeth a lot, too. I think maybe it boils down to the fact that the live experiences I have had with Dream Theater were much better than the ones I've had with Opeth. In terms of musicality, the two bands can't be compared though. -------------
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Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 8:38am
lol, thanks for asking bro  As a matter of fact, I'm not sure. ------------- http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 8:48am
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I'd assumed your posting was tongue-in-cheek, Bartosso. Where do you get the idea that you're not liked? Certainly I only know you from MMA but I always look forward to your posts. You in a bad place, mate? |
Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 8:49am
| Although a dislike for LaBrie's voice is a common trait amongst many thousands of metalheads and is probably not curable ;-) |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 9:12am
 .------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 9:41am
Oh it definitely was tongue-in-cheek! Still, as Jonas has said, the stuff that's been happening during the last 2-3 years is really starting to mess with my brain, so there may be some subconscious, id, ego, super ego interferences . I'm also on a very strict diet now and am hungry all the time I apologize if you took the "no one likes me" part seriously and personally (which is totally understandable, given the unfortunate way I put it, haha) It's just that one of my best friends turned his back on me when I needed his support, that depresses me a bit. But in general, even if I am a little bit asocial, it's the way I am and I have no problem with that whatsoever. Anyway, I'm sorry if my psychedelic rant worried you, but I'm also grateful for the kind words you said, they made me feel much better
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.Posted By: Vic
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 10:05am
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Definitely Dream Theater. I could never get into Opeth. Don't really care about DT either since Train of Thought though. ------------- 42 |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 11:01am
Oh, I know the feeling... except I don't buy into Freudian theory. But, yeah, I've been going through a rough patch too. And it's not over yet :-S
Oh, man, yeah having experienced shit like that when I was younger, I think I know where you're coming from. I have just given up on the best-friend concept altogether. -------------
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Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 12:04pm
Yeah, it turns out it's an overrated, idealistic concept. Also, I hope your life will get back to normal very soon.
You saw right there that I tried anyway ------------- http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 8:01pm
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I also agree with Opeth. I've always found them more interesting and diverse as opposed to Dream Theater, who seems to produce the same basic sound with every album. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2015 at 5:32pm
 ------------- "Before you see the light you must die!!!!!!!!!!" - Slayer "Today is born the seventh one, born of woman, the seventh son" - Steve Harris |
Posted By: Gabimm
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2015 at 11:36am
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I love DT! And I think the two completely different bands within the same universe (progressive metal). |
Posted By: Dobbie03
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2015 at 12:25pm
| Opeth by a long shot. I find DT extremely boring. |